J. Aaron,
thanks for your great help.
Please see my comments inline:
J Aaron Farr wrote:
Below is a draft for the board resolution for an OFBiz top level
project. Some notes:
1. The OFBiz community will need to select an initial PMC Chair
In my opinion, David Jones should be the PMC Chair, for a huge lot of
reasons, including that he is one of the founders of the project, he is
one of the more active committers, he has an amazing overall vision of
the project and most of all he is already 'naturally' playing this role.
See below for further comments:
2. Please review my wording of the scope of OFBiz in the first 3 paragraphs
3. There is a board meeting tomorrow, so the earliest this resolution
will be on the
agenda is December 20th.
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best
interests of the Foundation and consistent with the
Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management
Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of
open-source software related to enterprise automation, for
distribution at no charge to the public.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Open For Business
Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of
the Foundation; and be it further
Should we insert here also the "OFBiz" acronym? Something like:
"...to be known as the "Apache Open For Business Project" ("OFBiz")..."
See below for further comments:
RESOLVED, that the Apache Open For Business Project be and
hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of
software related to enterprise automation such as enterprise
resource planning, customer relationship management, materials
requirements planning, enterprise asset management and
e-commerce.
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Open For
Business" be and hereby is created, the person holding such
office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as
the chair of the Apache Open For Business Project, and to have
primary responsibility for management of the projects within
the scope of responsibility of the Apache Open For Business
Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and
hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the
Apache Open For Business Project:
* David E. Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
* Andy Zeneski ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
* Si Chen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
* Al Byers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
* Jacopo Cappellato ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
* Hans Bakker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
* Jacques Le Roux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Is this the list of initial committers, or PMC members? If it is the
former then it's correct; if it is the latter, then I think we should
discuss a bit more about it (and I really don't know if we should do
this in this list or privately). The main points I'd like to discuss are
this:
a) (in my opinion) the PMC members should be persons that are willing to
play this role and have time to manage the responsibilities and tasks
that derive from it
b) we should not mix the role of committer with the role of PMC member;
for example, should we consider to include in the initial PMC, at least
one member of the ASF? (i.e. one of our mentors, if interested) Another
example is Jacques: he is a young, active new committer that is helping
a lot the project but was voted as a committer, not PMC member
Thanks,
Jacopo
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that ${PMC_CHAIR} be
and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Open
For Business, to serve in accordance with and subject to the
direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the
Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or
disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it
further
RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Open For Business Project be
and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws
intended to encourage open development and increased
participation in the Open For Business Project; and be it
further
RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Open For Business Project be
and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of
the Apache Incubator Open For Business podling; and be it
further
RESOLVED, that all responsibility pertaining to the Apache
Incubator Open For Business podling encumbered upon the Apache
Incubator PMC are hereafter discharged.
