Andrea proposes election of a new PMC Chair as the #1 short-term priority.
Here are some discussion points.
1. TIMING
Once the AOO Project has selected a candidate to be the AOO PMC
Chair, a motion must be taken to the ASF Board for their election
of the proposed Chair. That ratification, or its rejection,
happens at a Board Meeting
<http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works/boardmeetings.html>.
The template motion is at
<https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/board/templates/change-chair-resolution.txt>
(accessible by ASF Committers).
The next meeting of the board is at 2014-02-18T18:30Z. A motion
to the board would be posted at least two days before that. An
appropriate time for balloting would be from 2014-02-09T20:00Z
to around 2014-02-15T00:00Z (midnight), for example. If that's
too soon, then in time for March.
The March meeting is at 2014-03-18T18:30Z.
The April meeting is at 2014-04-15T18:30Z and the quarterly
report of the AOO PMC is required in advance of that meeting.
This is presumably the first report provided by the new Chair.
2. OFFICIAL DUTIES OF THE CHAIR
The Chair will be made a Member of the ASF if not one already.
The Chair will be an Officer of the ASF, the Vice President
For OpenOffice. See
<https://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html#chair>.
Apart from the Chair's responsibilities with respect to the
Foundation, the Chair has the same responsibilities on the
PMC as any PMC member.
<https://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#pmc>.
(I note in the bylaws of the ASF that the terms of the Chair
and of the PMC members are stated to be one year. I don't
believe that's quite how it is being done.)
3. OTHER EXPECTATIONS
A number of other expectations concerning what the Project
expects of a Chair have been presented on the AOO dev list.
It is useful to discuss what those are and what sort of
commitment is expected.
It might be unwise to inject responsibilities for the Chair
that are not the responsibilities of any and every PMC member,
since the Chair serves the project as a volunteer as do the
PMC, committers, and contributors of all forms.
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org]
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 09:56
To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: Short-term priorities for OpenOffice
I see five short-term (say, something that must be either done or put
towards completion by end of February) priorities for OpenOffice as a
project. They overlap, and we, especially the PMC, need to agree on how
to order them, otherwise we risk pulling in different directions and
mutually blocking the initiatives from others.
1) Election a new PMC Chair (the Chair has one, and clearly defined,
role: being the liaison officer between the OpenOffice PMC and Apache;
he/she can do much more, and I have been doing much more and I'll still
continue with the rest; but this is not part of the Chair duties).
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