DARPA left this project in the dust 2-3 years ago FYI On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 7:50 AM Rich Bowen <rbo...@apache.org> wrote:
> Dear Apache Project Management Committee (PMC) members, > > The Board wants to take just a moment of your time to communicate a few > things that seem to have been forgotten by a number of PMC members, > across the Foundation, over the past few years. Please note that this > is being sent to all projects - yours has not been singled out. > > The Project Management Committee (PMC) as a whole[1] is tasked with the > oversight, health, and sustainability of the project. The PMC members > are responsible collectively, and individually, for ensuring that the > project operates in a way that is in line with ASF philosophy, and in a > way that serves the developers and users of the project. > > The PMC Chair is not the project leader, in any sense. It is the person > who files board reports and makes sure they are delivered on time. It > is the secretary for the project, and the project’s ambassador to the > Board of Directors. The VP title is given as an artifact of US > corporate law, and not because the PMC Chair has any special powers. If > you are treating your PMC Chair as the project lead, or granting them > any other special powers or privileges, you need to be aware that > that’s not the intent of the Chair role. The Chair is a PMC member peer > with a few extra duties. > > Every PMC member has an equal voice in deliberations. Each has one > vote. Each has veto power. Every vote weighs the same. It is not only > your right, but it is your obligation, to use that vote for the good of > the project and its users, not to appease the Chair, your employer, or > any other voice in the project. > > Every PMC member can, and should, nominate new committers, and new PMC > members. This is not the sole domain of the PMC Chair. This might be > your most important responsibility to the project, as succession > planning is the path to sustainability. > > Every PMC member can, and should, respond when the Board sends email to > your private list. You should not wait for the PMC Chair to respond. > The Board views the entire PMC as responsible for the project, not just > one member. > > Every PMC member should be subscribed to the private@ mailing list. If > you are not, then you are neglecting your duty of oversight. If you no > longer wish to be responsible for oversight of the project, you should > resign your PMC seat, not merely drop off of the private@ list and > ignore it. You can determine which PMC members are not subscribed to > your private list by looking at your PMC roster at > https://whimsy.apache.org/roster/committee/ Names with an asterisk (*) > next to them are not subscribed to the list. We encourage you to take a > moment to contact them with this information. > > Thank you for your attention to these matters, and thank you for > keeping our projects healthy. > > Rich, for The Board of Directors > > [1] https://apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#pmc-members > >
