On Fri, Nov 8, 2013, at 08:10 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > IMO the IPMC cannot delegate legal oversight to a sub-committee (for > example) unless that sub-committee consisted of members of the IPMC. The > reason for this is hat only members of the IPMC are recognized by the > board > and thus only IPMC members have binding votes.
That is what the board has done to date. That is not the only possibility in terms of what the board *could* do, which is much more where my question was leading. > That doesn't prevent social conventions that say IPMC members only vote in > podlings that recognize them as members of their project community. > > Furthermore, the IPMC could define a "task force" or whatever you want to > call it, which is responsible for the health of the IPMC as a whole, > including assisting podling with absent mentors and insufficient IPMC > representation. > > My point is that once we think in terms of social conventions pretty much > anything is possible. My issue is that granting PMC membership is too big a step for many podling members. Going from being newbie podling member, to a part of a team responsible for 50+ incubator projects is, with the freedom to mentor other podlings, is too big a step for most podling members, and will remain scary even if you attempt to restrict 'powers' through social convention. Whereas, if it were possible to grant a lesser role, which allowed podling members to cast binding votes for their podling alone, we'd likely see a lot more podling members voted into that position (sure, they can only be voted in by Incubator PMC members). I'm afraid I find it very tedious us attempting to shoe-horn the incubator into a structure (a standard PMC) that just doesn't quite fit, rather than seeking a structure that will suit the both the incubator and the foundation, allowing merit to be recognised in individuals at a range of stages within a podlings lifecycle. Upayavira --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
