Re: [DISCUSS] bylaws and CoC

2019-05-20 Thread Naomi Slater
sure thing, Gris. happy to wait On Sun, 19 May 2019 at 02:32, Griselda Cuevas wrote: > Hi Naomi, > > I'd like to propose an alternative approach, how about we first agree on a > set of values we want to define the committee (and the Foundation on the > D&I front), and the goals we want to achiev

Re: [DISCUSS] bylaws and CoC

2019-05-18 Thread Griselda Cuevas
Hi Naomi, I'd like to propose an alternative approach, how about we first agree on a set of values we want to define the committee (and the Foundation on the D&I front), and the goals we want to achieve as a community. From there we can define guidelines. To me guidelines need to be in alignment

Re: [DISCUSS] bylaws and CoC

2019-05-18 Thread Naomi Slater
thanks for the tip Justin I'm glad that there's been some progress on this since I was last actively involved with the Incubator. and it's cool to see that the CouchDB bylaws have had some sort of influence on this! I think it's probably a good idea that podlings are advised not to create their o

Re: [DISCUSS] bylaws and CoC

2019-05-17 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, And recently even those have seem to have gone out of favour as many of them contained things that were not in line with how the ASF works or its policies. Podlings are asked not to create them on graduation. For procedural things (voting and the like) I just point podlings to this. [1] Th

Re: [DISCUSS] bylaws and CoC

2019-05-17 Thread Naomi Slater
ack! thanks I'll pass this on to CouchDB too On Fri, 17 May 2019 at 16:16, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 3:40 PM Naomi Slater wrote: > > ...we should formalize some committee bylaws... > > FWIW, in the last year or so the Board and Incubator PMC have > recommende

Re: [DISCUSS] bylaws and CoC

2019-05-17 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 3:40 PM Naomi Slater wrote: > ...we should formalize some committee bylaws... FWIW, in the last year or so the Board and Incubator PMC have recommended that projects create "community guidelines" rather than bylaws. It might just be a name change, the content is prob

[DISCUSS] bylaws and CoC

2019-05-17 Thread Naomi Slater
another email in the advent of the creation of the D&I committee we should formalize some committee bylaws. I can start that effort and share a draft with the list. I worked extensively on the CouchDB bylaws (along with Joan, and others) and that would be my starting point cf. https://couchdb.apa