Thanks Greg. And also thanks to Justin for the research on what other projects have done.
Greg, has the "how to vote" discussion come up in the past on incubator or other ASF-wide list? I'm wondering if a more formal policy is going to come out and we should hold off on creating our bylaws/policies until afterward. -Alex ________________________________________ From: Greg Reddin [gred...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 6:50 AM To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Apache Flex Bylaws Hi all, I hate to muddy the waters here, but I'll add this: When Tiles became a TLP we had the bylaws clause in our resolution. I don't remember all the context, but I'm pretty sure the objections came from some board members at the time (2006). The objections were that the ASF bylaws are the bylaws of projects. Others argued that project bylaws were a way for projects to get more specific about how their projects are run within the ASF guidelines. If my memory serves me correctly, the bottom line was that projects are free to adopt bylaws if they wish but that they are not a requirement. Because of that I think Crossley's email on Incubator was a little too "settled". I don't think it's a settled thing that projects must adopt bylaws. That said, I think the things you are trying to formalize through establishing bylaws are good things to formalize. It's good to have them in writing and pointed to in a board report. If objections are raised in the future, we can point back to the adopted document.. We may still have to change (If you've followed the discussions on other lists, you'll see that there is not always consensus about these rules), but at least we will have something in writing to discuss. So all of that is to say that I think this is a good thing and we should do it. But we may end up having to call them "policies" instead of bylaws once presented to the board and we may trigger some crazy discussion of them once they are presented to the board. Or they may fly completely under the radar and not be noticed. Greg
