On Dec 1, 2013, at 1:19 PM, Doug McCune <d...@dougmccune.com> wrote:
> My personal opinion is that you guys should swap and give Justin (or > someone else who's interested) the opportunity for a year. One thing the > project needs is good bench strength if anything were to happen that would > limit someone's involvement. I'd be concerned with the prospect of Adobe > pulling funding for Alex, and then him having a hard time justifying the > time. > > Overall having two people equally competent to chair the project ensures > that we reduce the risk of having the chair need to step down and nobody > stepping into the place. I think having Alex help a second chair hit the > ground running and ensure the project's continuity would be a really good > thing at this point in time. In the future switching every year might be > overkill, but right now I think training up a second chair would be really > good for the project. > Knowing Alex and Justin both and their commitment to Apache Flex I think either Justin or Alex would both make a perfectly acceptable chair. That said, I would say I agree with Doug. Strong bench and redundancy sounds like a winner to me.
