Bonnie Corwin <Bonnie.Corwin at Sun.COM> writes:

> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> Roy T. Fielding wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> The only positive
>>>decision made was to create a committee to stick your noses where
>>>they don't belong, namely in approving the technical content of
>>>an ongoing project (website).
>> 
>> 
>> The website project is about the technical infrastructure running the
>> website - the committee is to manage the content displayed by that
>> website.   Surely in the Apache Foundation the people who decide what
>> appears on http://www.apache.org/ are a different group than those who
>> decide what code goes into the httpd or tomcat projects?   Why is it
>> surprising that we have a similar distinction?
>> 
>
> The minutes say the committe will do the following:
>
>    "He
>     added that this committee would be formed to approve editorial
>     changes to the content and commentary of the site, but explicitly
>     exclude infrastructure and the underpinnings of the website
>     application."
>
> What exactly does this mean?  The words can be read to mean the 
> committee will approve all changes to all pages on the site, but I find 
> it hard to believe that was the intent.

I doubt it could be the intent, given content associated with projects
and communities is surely their own.

-- Rich

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