@sebb
Yes, what you say about the position of the Chair (and also how the chair
accomplishes that as an officer of the ASF) was what I had in mind.
With regard to the PPMC, here is a roster of the *current* PPMC (subject to
corrections anyone notices):
Kai Ahrens : kahrens PPMC
Florent André : florent PPMC
Dave Barton : bmcs PPMC
Mathias Bauer : mbauer PPMC
Cyril Beaussier : bidouille PPMC
Stephan Bergmann : sb PPMC
Raphael Bircher : rbircher PPMC
Simon Brouwer : simonbr PPMC
Arthur Buijs : artietee PPMC
Jin Hua Chen : chenjinh PPMC
Jian Hong Cheng : chengjh PPMC
Ariel Constenla-Haile : arielch PPMC
Yuri Dario : ydario PPMC
Hagar Delest : hagar PPMC
Herbert Dürr : hdu PPMC
Claudio Filho : filhocf PPMC
Andre Fischer : af PPMC
David Fisher : wave PPMC
Thomas J. Frazier : tj PPMC
Roberto Galoppini : galoppini PPMC
Pedro Giffuni : pfg PPMC
Wolf Halton : wolfhalton PPMC
Dennis E. Hamilton : orcmid PPMC
Don Harbison : dpharbison PPMC
Regina Henschel : regina PPMC
Ivo Hinkelmann : ivo PPMC
Kazunari Hirano : khirano PPMC
Martin Hollmichel : mhollmichel PPMC
Jim Jagielski : jim PPMC
Drew Jensen : atjensen PPMC
Christoph Jopp : cjopp PPMC
Damjan Jovanovic : damjan PPMC
Peter Junge : pj PPMC
Yegor Kozlov : yegor PPMC
Marcus Lange : marcus PPMC
Graham Lauder : yo PPMC
Armin Le Grand : alg PPMC
Steve Lee : stevelee PPMC
Wang Lei : leiw PPMC
Christian Lippka : clippka PPMC
Ian Lynch : ingotian PPMC
Yong Lin Ma : mayongl PPMC
Carl Marcum : cmarcum PPMC
David McKay : thegurkha PPMC
Ingrid von der Mehden : ingrid PPMC
Antón Méixome : meixome PPMC
Maho Nakata : maho PPMC
Albino Neto : bino28 PPMC
Andrea Pescetti : pescetti PPMC
Frank Thomas Peters : fpe PPMC
Allen Pulsifer : apulsifer PPMC
Eike Rathke : erack PPMC
Manfred Reiter : fredao PPMC
Zoltán Reizinger : r4zoli PPMC
RGB.ES : rgb-es PPMC
Phillip Rhodes : prhodes PPMC
Andrew Rist : arist PPMC
Lawrence Rosen : lrosen PPMC
Roberto Salomon : salomon PPMC
Juan C. Sanz : jucasaca PPMC
Kay Schenk : kschenk PPMC
Jürgen Schmidt : jsc PPMC
Yang Shih-Ching : imacat PPMC
Jomar Silva : homembit PPMC
Kai Sommerfeld : kso PPMC
Louis Suárez-Potts : louis PPMC
Stefan Taxhet : st PPMC
Malte Timmermann : malte PPMC
Zhe Wang : wangzcdl PPMC
Rob Weir : robweir PPMC
Oliver-Rainer Wittmann : orw PPMC
Jian Fang Zhang : zhangjf PPMC
Xia Zhao : lilyzhao PPMC
-----Original Message-----
From: sebb [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 12:17
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Proposed PMC Chair nomination process
On 23 August 2012 19:22, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote:
> I suggest that the initial Project Management Committee (PMC) needs to be
> identified before the election of a Chair from that body is undertaken.
The initial proposed PMC for other podlings has usually been taken
from the PPMC membership, but dropping any inactive (or unwilling)
members.
> Also, this seems like a very good time to review, for the benefit of all
> here, what the duties of PMC members are and, with respect to that, what the
> specific responsibilities of the Chair are and what the special standing of
> the Chair is so its accountability can be carried out.
http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#pmc-members
http://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html
http://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html#chair
The PMC chair is a position of responsibility (to the PMC and Board)
rather than authority over the PMC.
> - Dennis
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Weir [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 10:36
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [DISCUSS] Proposed PMC Chair nomination process
>
> Now that the community graduation ballot has passed, one of our next
> tasks is to identify a PMC Chair.
>
> You can read about the duties of a PMC Chair here:
> http://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html#chair
>
> How do we want to do this?
>
> A strawman proposal:
>
> 1) Nominations would be open for 72 hours. Anyone can nominate
> someone for the role. Self-nominations are fine. And of course
> nominations can be declined.
>
> 2) If there is only one nomination, then we are done, provided there
> are no sustained objections.
>
> 3) If there is more than one nomination we discuss on the list for
> another 72 hours. Discussion would primarily be on ooo-dev, but some
> subjects might be directed to ooo-private.
>
> 4) If after 72-hours discussion there are still two or more nominees
> then we vote. Everyone would be welcome to vote, but binding votes
> would be from PPMC members. If there are more than 2 candidates we
> would probably need to use a more complicated voting system, or have a
> run-off vote if none of the nominees receive an outright majority.
>
> Any improvements or alternatives to this basic scheme?
>
> Regards,
>
> -Rob
>
