On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Arron Bates wrote: > Ooops, just missed it. :)
Not at all. I won't be sending the proposal to the board until the weekend, so now that you've responded, you're in. :-) -- Martin Cooper > No worries. Due to life, I've been conspicuous in my absence, and probably > wouldn't be a ripple in the PMC decision making anyways. Just as long as I can > maintain commit status to support nested tag coders I'm happy. :) > > If things change and I get more play time, then I'll knock on the PMC door as > required. > > > Cheers, > > Arron. > > > > > The response to this vote has been unanimous, with all proposed PMC > > members responding except for two: Arron Bates and Don Brown. I have > > attempted to ping those two directly, but have not yet heard back. > > > > The next board meeting is March 17th, which is next Wednesday. I propose > > to submit our resolution this weekend, for consideration at that meeting. > > In the absence of responses from Arron and Don before then, I will remove > > their names from both lists. They will, of course, be welcome to > > join the PMC at a later time. > > > > If anyone has any objections to the above plan, please speak up now. > > > > -- > > Martin Cooper > > > > On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Martin Cooper wrote: > > > > > Following up on a brief thread on this list in December [1], Craig, Ted > > > and I have put together a draft resolution to the board of directors [2], > > > along with a cover letter [3], that would promote Struts to an Apache > > > top-level project (TLP). > > > > > > The main reasons for moving to a TLP are described on the wiki [4]. In > > > Craig's words, "The short answer, though, is we will be in charge of our > > > own releases (currently, the Jakarta PMC is the only body legally > > > recognized to vote on releases of *any* software under Jakarta)." In > > > practice, we can really just continue doing what we've always done. > > > > > > As most of you are no doubt aware, several Jakarta sub-projects have > > > already made the transition to TLPs, including Ant, Avalon, Gump, James, > > > Log4J, Maven, OJB, and Torque. Most Jakarta PMC members seem to be in > > > favour of the migrations, largely because a single PMC cannot possibly > > > oversee a code base the size of all of Jakarta. > > > > > > If you're OK with Struts being a top-level Apache project, please respond > > > to this thread with either a +1 or +0. Otherwise, please reply with your > > > concerns. When we previously discussed this, it did not seem like anyone > > > was opposed to the idea, but if anyone is, now is the time to speak up. > > > > > > The resolution as drafted lists the Struts Committers who could > > > reasonably be considered active at this time. Of course, we should not > > > put anyone on the PMC without their buy-in, so the final resolution would > > > only list the Committers who responded to the Vote with a +1 or +0. > > > > > > The draft resolution also leaves the name of the Vice President blank. > > > Craig seems like the logical candidate, and is willing to act in this > > > capacity, but we wanted the VP selection to be a community decision. So, > > > please also respond with your nomination for Vice President, Apache > > > Struts. > > > > > > Here's my +1 on the resolution as drafted, and my +1 for Craig as Vice > > > President. > > > > > > -- > > > Martin Cooper > > > > > > [1] > http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/SearchList?listId=&[EMAIL > PROTECTED]&searchText=%22Why+you+*want*+to+be+on+the+PMC%22&defaultField=subject&Search=Search > > > [2] http://www.apache.org/~martinc/struts/tlp/resolution.html > > > [3] http://www.apache.org/~martinc/struts/tlp/cover.html > > > [4] http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?JakartaPMCPropsedChanges > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
