On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:35:34PM +0000, Noah Slater wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:27:42PM +1030, Antony Blakey wrote: > >> The project wasn't set up as blank page with a group of people > >> discussing what they wanted to do, it was a single persons vision. A > >> vision that other people thought was cool and have come together to > >> make it better. > > > > And now it's an Apache project, so it's no longer appropriate for it to > > be one person's vision. > > I call bullshit. As the PMC we are happily bound to the rules of the Apache > Software Foundation, but if we as individuals choose to organise ourselves > around Damien as the BDFL then that is our choice to do so. >
Sorry, that's not how the ASF works. There is no concept of BDFL. Everyone's vote and opinion on the PMC has the exact same weight. Anyone can legally and officially veto anything (with a solid technical reason). If the concept of BDFL is crucial to CouchDB, then it does not belong under the ASF... -- =========================================================================== Jim Jagielski [|] [email protected] [|] http://www.jaguNET.com/ "Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war" ~ John Adams
