Hi Carl, On May 30, 2007, at 6:14 AM, Carl Trieloff wrote:
One more question on this topic as I have also seen differing views from different members of the Incubator PMC on: "Who can and who can not send the account setup mail to root?"Given each new committer vote will have 3 PMC votes, why does a mentor have to send the account setup to root? Why can't the mail to root just contain a link to the vote result with 3 PMC members on it from the general list?
This is a question that I believe only infrastructure can answer. The issue is that right now, "root" has to respond only to emails from PMC chairs, and it's easy to verify that it's really the PMC chair sending the request.
Some PMC members have the view that any PPMC member should be able to send the account setup to root to learn the system, others say it has to be a mentor. Cliff has kindly taken care of most of these mail for us so far so this is more theoretical, however having clarity on this in the document would also be good as I have wondered about the reasoning behind this practice. If the mail to root has to be cc-ed to general list and PPMC and has 3 PMC votes on it then it would seem to me that it could be send by anyone.
If anyone can send the request, then "root" has to do more work by verifying the vote thread, following the link provided in the message, to make sure that the request is valid.
I agree that it's better for the PPMC members themselves to be able to make the request to root, but I'd have to leave it up to infrastructure to decide if they can handle it.
Craig
Carl. Craig L Russell wrote:Having seen this identical discussion at least half a dozen times, I've committed changes to the guides/ppmc document removing the distracting (P) from the discussion on new committers.The new text saysOnly votes cast by Incubator PMC members are binding. If the vote is positive, and the contributor accepts the responsibility of a committer for the project, the contributor formally becomes an Apache committer. An Incubator PMC member should then follow the documented procedures to complete the process, and CC both the Incubator PMC and the PPMC when sending the necessary e-mails to root.I included the redundant "Incubator" in "Incubator PMC" simply to reinforce Noel's comment that PMC means Incubator PMC.Craig On May 29, 2007, at 8:49 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote:Yoav Shapira wrote:I voted +0, not having had time to review the proposed committer's contributions.+1 != +0I always thought (and the documentation at http://incubator.apache.org/guides/ppmc.html) says PPMC votes are binding.It says (P), and the (P) clearly does not belong. Notice that elsewhere it properly says PPMC, with no (), and the places that are wrong were PMC to which someone added (P). Likewise "IPMC" should simply be PMC. There isonly one PMC: the Incubator PMC.I don't know how to say this more clearly. The PPMC is not a recognized entity in the ASF Bylaws. The PMC is the legal entity, and only PMC votes count in any ASF project. PPMC members should still vote, as can other members of the community, but as a legal matter, only PMC votes are binding.This is not Incubator policy, it is how the ASF works.It is the same in Jakarta, for example, where any Jakarta Committer who isn't on the PMC can vote, but only Jakarta PMC votes count. For years people didn't understand this, but please understand that Jakarta is the source of many of the wrong and bad practices in ASF projects that didn't gothrough either the HTTP Server project or the Incubator.the documentation link above is out of date.It was never "in date". It is wrong, regardless of date. --- Noel-------------------------------------------------------------------- -To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Craig RussellArchitect, Sun Java Enterprise System http://java.sun.com/products/ jdo408 276-5638 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp!--------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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