On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 06:27 PM, Tetsuya Kitahata wrote:
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 12:29:16 -0400 (Subject: Re: [VOTE] New Chair (Re: cvs commit : incubator STATUS)) Jim Jagielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Personally, I think it would be almost obscenely ironic if the Incubator, which is designed to help ensure the "Apache Way" in building communities and projects, has a PMC structure which is totally unique within the ASF.
"obscenely ironic"?? .. oh, really? Don't you think it is *the best practice*?
No, I don't actually. One reason is that it goes against the whole core idea that the "power base" if we want to call it that, rests with the PMC Chairs (or co-chairs or whatever) rather than the actual PMC members themselves. The PMC Chair is not some sort of king or dictator or even President. He/she doesn't make decisions "for" the PMC. Saying that we need more people with "power" implies a large variance of power between PMC members and the chair, which is not the case. In effect, ALL PMC members are vice-Chairs.
The fact that there are PMC members who aren't strongly motivated or active does not mean that we somehow need a PMC Chair to "take everything over". It means the PMC itself needs to be scrubbed, people-wise. People get spread too thin and trick themselves into thinking that they can do adequate jobs when the simple truth is that they can't.
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