Background: over a period of time, the ASF has developed a number of
tools that help with voting processes. These are used to vote in new
boards and members. From time to time, they have also been used by
various PMCs.
These tools are currently located in a foundation private location:
https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/foundation/voter
We've received (and/or planted :-)) outside interest in these tools, and
as such thought about how to make a release of these tools for outside
consumption.
The votes cast to date are private, but the tools used to process these
votes need not be.
Much of the initial code was written by Roy Fielding, and I can verify
that we have an ICLA on file for him. Jim expressed an interest in
chairing, and I can vouch that he "gets" the Apache Way :-). Greg Stein
wrote/ported stv_tool.py (after which this proposal is named), and knows
how to make an ASF release.
I can go on, but a number of things are clear: the code is in active
use, this code is already in ASF repositories and has been for some
time, everybody who has contributed to date has an ICLA on file, and
everybody who has contributed to date qualifies to be a Mentor for this
effort.
This so far has lead us to the conclusion that there really isn't any
"incubating" that needs to be done.
I'd like to open the topic up for discussion.
To kick things off, I'd copy the draft ASF Board resolution into the
incubator wiki, but apparently "SamRuby" is not in the
ContributorsGroup. If somebody could rectify that and/or copy the
resolution into the wiki, I would appreciate that. There's not much to
see there, it simply is a routine resolution, full of words like
WHEREAS, THEREFORE, and RESOLVED.
https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/foundation/board/apache-steve.txt
- Sam Ruby
P.S. I apologize for publishing private links to a public list, but the
clear intent here is to open everything up. We just need to figure out
the best way to get from where we are to where we want to be.
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