My rationale is that the chair also makes sense to be someone heavily vested in the project’s success which of course you are Sam. We don’t have to worry about BDFL here. You’re the opposite and someone we trust.
Beyond that, if someone else really comes up in Whimsy (like Sebb is doing), maybe at some point he steps in as chair.. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Chief Architect Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398) NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527 Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -----Original Message----- From: <sa3r...@gmail.com> on behalf of Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net> Reply-To: "dev@whimsical.apache.org" <dev@whimsical.apache.org> Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 12:08 PM To: "dev@whimsical.apache.org" <dev@whimsical.apache.org> Subject: Re: Perhaps I ought to step down as PMC Chair after-all >On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) ><chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: >> +1 thank you for your service Ross. >> >> Sam prepared the report this month - any objections to him >> being the chair? > >I'm not opposed to the workload, but if there is anybody else >willing/able to take this role, I think it would help ensure that >there were multiple eyes on the project. I think that was part of the >thinking behind Ross's original volunteering for this role; but (quite >understandably given his workload), it didn't quite work out as hoped. > >- Sam Ruby
