FYI, Any potential chair candidate should review: http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#management
In fact we all should have a look :-) One interesting thing I noted was that the chair must become a corporate officer of the Foundation. Im a wholehearted +1 BTW Geoff On 1/12/06, Howard Lewis Ship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, I think the first step is to figure out who the PMC is, and who > the Chair is. > > I think a good guess for the PMC would be all the active members of > Tapestry (in no order): > > HLS, HK, DS, MB, JK, KT, GL, PF, RLS > > In terms of Chair, we're looking for someone with a long term > experience with Tapestry. We have a wide mix of activity levels at > different times. > > Over the long term, DS and MB are probably the biggest contributors > after HLS. PF and JK are on the way up, but are fairly recent. GL > has moved mountains, but from the outside (Spindle). Please don't > interpret these as slights; these are my observations. > > So, I think a good start would be to see if DS or MB is interested in the > Chair. > > I'm hoping that the Chair position is not a big time sink; I really > think it's mostly about quarterly communication with the apache board; > you can see Henri's most recent report: > http://jakarta.apache.org/site/pmc/board-report-december2005.html > > Thoughts? Comments? > > > On 1/12/06, David Solis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IMO, this topic is very important and it would be the next level for > > Tapestry. Some of my clients think Tapestry depends too much on Howard > > Ship. > > > > Regards > > > > D. > > On 1/10/06, Howard Lewis Ship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anyone up for tapestry.apache.org? (I noticed we did have a discussion > > > about this back in March.) > > > > > > I've been saying for some time that Jakarta is turning into more of a > > > second-level incubator; all successful projects (including Ant and > > > Struts) have migrated up to top-level projects. It's been made clear > > > to me that this is not only possible for Tapestry, it is desirable. > > > > > > In organizational terms, this would mean that Tapestry would have its > > > own Project Management Comittee. We would have to produce quarterly > > > reports to the Apache board. Our home page address and mailing list > > > addresses would change. > > > > > > The advantage is that we could break Tapestry into smaller pieces > > > (projects within the TLP) and each sub-project could have its own set > > > of committers. This, combined with using Maven 2 for builds, would > > > give us a lot more flexibility and room to breathe. > > > > > > However, it requires a chairman to report to the board and I'm pretty > > > desperate for that to ** not ** be me. I say this out of a mix of > > > lazyness (I'm already too busy), self awareness (I do terribly at any > > > kind of organization stuff) and political savvy (it would some ways > > > demonstrate that Tapestry can survive without HLS). > > > > > > A TLP move would also be a good time to: > > > - Rethink our release numbering strategy > > > - Create new project marketting assets (icons, etc.) > > > - Ask HiveMind if they would like to move from Jakarta to Tapestry > > > > > > > > > On that second point ... does anyone have any ideas about refreshing > > > the Tapestry marketting assets? It might be nice to have someone > > > (semi-)professional design new icons and such. The Circle-T is really > > > looking dated! > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Howard M. Lewis Ship > > > Independent J2EE / Open-Source Java Consultant > > > Creator, Jakarta Tapestry > > > Creator, Jakarta HiveMind > > > > > > Professional Tapestry training, mentoring, support > > > and project work. http://howardlewisship.com > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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] > > > > > > > -- > Howard M. Lewis Ship > Independent J2EE / Open-Source Java Consultant > Creator, Jakarta Tapestry > Creator, Jakarta HiveMind > > Professional Tapestry training, mentoring, support > and project work. http://howardlewisship.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- The Spindle guy. http://spindle.sf.net Get help with Spindle: http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/spindle-user Blog: http://jroller.com/page/glongman Feature Updates: http://spindle.sf.net/updates --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
