Re: [vote] Request Graduation to a TLP

[Matt Hogstrom]

-1

I hate changing votes in the middle of a thread.  There was some  
information missing that I've been able to get a clearer picture of  
the situation.

In the initial discuss thread there was a request to add two people  
to the PMC by one of the existing PMC members.  It is up to the  
community to make that decision.  There was ample time to resolve the  
issue and it seems that due to the lack of clear policies there were  
different understandings on how the new PMC is formed.  The current  
information seems to indicate there is no hard and fast policy but  
that the proposed PMC composition is a community decision.  I agree  
that during incubation the PPMC was mostly invisible which is a  
credit to the members and the community.

Since there appears to be some community unease about this situation  
I believe that this issue should be resolved before taking a  
resolution to the board.  Perhaps the right thing to do is to poll  
the community for people who are willing to discharge PMC  
responsibilities and form the group from that set of volunteers.   
Unfortunately, this probably should have happened during incubation  
but everything executed so well I expect no one saw this level of  
concern coming.

It would be good to get some comments from the other PPMC members on  
this as David seems to be fairly alone in discussing this and as the  
proposed PMC chair it puts him in an awkward position of "leading"  
the discussion.  Perhaps this is another indication that more active  
members would benefit the PMC.

On Apr 3, 2007, at 8:53 AM, Matt Hogstrom wrote:

+0

On Apr 3, 2007, at 12:17 AM, Brett Porter wrote:

Hi,

Below is the current proposal for the OpenEJB TLP. Please vote on  
whether to make this proposal a formal request to the incubator  
PMC to apply for graduation.

[ ] +1
[ ] 0
[ ] -1

Cheers,
Brett


       Establish Apache OpenEJB Project

       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 application and remoting services, for  
distribution at
       no charge to the public.

       NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
       Committee (PMC), to be known as the "The Apache OpenEJB  
Project",
       be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
       Foundation; and be it further

       RESOLVED, that The Apache OpenEJB Project be and hereby is
       responsible for the creation and maintenance of a software
       project related to enterprise application and remoting  
services;
       and be it further

       RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, OpenEJB" 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
       OpenEJB Project, and to have primary responsibility for
       management of the projects within the scope of  
responsibility of
       The Apache OpenEJB 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 OpenEJB Project:

         * David Blevins       ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
         * Alan Cabrera        ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
         * David Jencks        ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
         * Jacek Laskowski     ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
         * Brett Porter        ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
         * Dain Sundstrom      ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

       NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that David Blevins  
be and
       hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President,  
OpenEJB, 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 OpenEJB Project be and  
hereby
       is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
       Incubator OpenEJB podling; and be it further

       RESOLVED, that all responsibility pertaining to the Apache
       Incubator OpenEJB podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
       PMC are hereafter discharged.