On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Daniel F. Savarese wrote:
> > Dear Jakarta PMC, > > We've got a problem over in jakarta-oro that we need the PMC to help fix. > We no longer have a quorum of active committers to vote on things. > But we do have active contributors and plenty of active users. We > need to get our 2.0.8 release out the door and have been fudging the > voting rules for a couple of previous releases, by counting votes from > two active contributors who aren't committers, in addition to my vote > (an active committer) and Jon Steven's vote (who is a committer, but > not active). This can't go on any longer because it's just not correct > procedure. We'd like to vote two active contributors in as committers, > but for obvious reasons we can't. Therefore, we need the PMC to step > in and help. > > There are several, not necessarily mutually exclusive, possibilities: > 1. PMC evaluates situation and votes in two committers, restoring the > necessary quorum. +0. This seems a fine solution. Neither of the commiters [mentioned below] seem > 2. PMC takes over voting responsibility for releases, which I believe > is the long term goal for all Jakarta projects. In this case, I'd > request to be added to/voted onto the PMC because I'm a former PMC > member and someone from the project should be around to initiate > votes. +1 to PMC for Daniel. +0 for the PMC managing ORO releases. I'm not sure it's a good one to start on. Someone needs to do the legwork and ensure that every Jakarta project has at least one PMC member on it. Not volunteering, but if I get bored I'll do it [boredoom is so so rare]. > 3. Project is opened up to all Jakarta committers and those interested > subscribe to dev mailing list and participate in votes. -0. I'd love to get into ORO, but the science behind regular expression engines is not N-easy, so I think the regular committers would not be able to offer a lot. I do have a 6 which is kind of like this. > 4. Make jakarta-regexp committers jakarta-oro committers and vice versa, > as I believe jakarta-regexp is in a similar situation to jakarta-oro. > Whether or not the two projects would merge would be decided later, > but participants of each could take an active role in helping the > other project along. +1 [and mentioned in 6 below] > 5. A call for participation is made to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and any already > existing Jakarta committer willing to contribute some time to the > project is automatically made a committer for the project. Whatever :) Worth doing, but I'm not sure you need the kickstart when you have 2 qualified contributors and 2 committers to pass on the ASF way. > I'm sure there are additional alternatives. I'm happy with any of the > above. Another is: 6. Put ORO in Commons as Jakarta Regexp(?). End of life both Regexp and ORO. Enter the Commons community as a tight reusable module. Though I'm unsure what ORO offers over JDK, and what your plans are regarding the JDK. Hen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
