I'm quite satisfied with myself that I said my piece and stood by to see what discussion would unfold. I should have known it wouldn't have been so easy. Still, I promise not to post more than once per day on this thread, with the exception of responses to questions I have been asked directly.
One small addition to this diversion from the basic question: The TDF has Members. I don't know how many it has, but there are Members. They will elect the Board of Directors and the Board of Directors will be chosen from them. Back on topic: I would like to hear something from others about their sense of what they want to see and why. I want to know what the concerns of others are without them being immediately challenged over their wrong-headedness. - Dennis SOME STATISTICS There are currently 75 committers on the Apache OOo Podling project. Two of those are also mentors; 55 of the others are on the PPMC. In the last ballot of the PPMC, 24 PPMC members voted. in the ballot before that, 30 PPMC members voted. The remaining 18 committers are each automatically eligible to be on the PPMC, though a few have declined. There are also 13 initial committers who have not completed their establishment as committers for unknown reasons. These are also eligible to be on the PPMC if they show up before the door is closed. Of the current committers, 7 were invited as the result of ballots on the PPMC (i.e., they were not initial committers). There is one committer whose establishment is underway. That is the 8th committer invited as the result of PPMC ballot. That committer is invited to be on the PPMC also. -----Original Message----- From: Rob Weir [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 10:48 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Having New Committers also be on the PPMC On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Ross Gardler <[email protected]> wrote: > May I observe that this thread should be about what is right for AOOo. What > others do and whether that is right or wrong is irrelevant here unless we > are using it to inform our decision. Lets not have yet another "us" and > "them" argument. > We've talked about other Apache projects, and what they do. It is a fair point to talk about what other open source projects do as well. Finding out what "is right for AOOo" is not something best done with our eyes shut. I agree let's not make it adversarial. But I would be interested to know why Simon speaks up in favor of us have a congress-sized PMC, but has not made a similar recommendation for TDF/LO. If there is a good answer, I'm sure it would be relevant to our discussions, since the projects are otherwise very similar. In other words, is TDF/LO governance a different solution to the same problem? Or a different problem altogether? If the former, then what went wrong there that leads Simon to make a different recommendation for AOOo? -Rob [ ... ]
