RE: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-29 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Stephen McConnell wrote: > For all practical purposes you are the defacto point-man with respect > to the Directory project. I was curious, so I looked. I am far from the only PMC member (or ASF Member) subscribed (I was also surprised to discover that there are ~40 subscribers) But although I

Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-29 Thread Stephen McConnell
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Berin Lautenbach wrote: I will absolutely agree that we want to keep [rules] to a minimum. But that minimum must exist for the ASF (as an organisation) to work. Agreed. Some of which I think are for the Incubator PMC to impose on itself as necessary, but don't ef

Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-29 Thread Stephen McConnell
+1 on everything below (including the tinker's cuss). Stephen. Berin Lautenbach wrote: Aaron Bannert wrote: On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 03:43:56PM +1100, Berin Lautenbach wrote: I'm confused by what you are saying. Do you believe there should be one person in an authoritative position for each PPM

Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-29 Thread Berin Lautenbach
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: The role of the incubator is to actively oversite projects coming on board. Unless we have someone we can point to who is doing that active oversite and reporting any issues, then I believe we cannot (as easily) show oversite. Doesn't work this way. At work, I show

Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-29 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Berin Lautenbach wrote: ... > However I believe there needs to be a formalisation that there is one Incubator PMC member who is ensuring the PPMC is meeting their requirements of accountability. The fact that only one is not enough and more are needed has already been seen in practice and decided

Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-29 Thread Berin Lautenbach
Noel J. Bergman wrote: I disagree. I believe that with the PPMC structure in place, we should hold the PPMC accountable, just as every PMC is accountable. We need to ensure that the PPMC members are well aware of the responsibility of the PPMC, and that it is accountable. I think that instillin

RE: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-29 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Berin Lautenbach wrote: > I will absolutely agree that we want to keep [rules] to a minimum. But > that minimum must exist for the ASF (as an organisation) to work. Agreed. Some of which I think are for the Incubator PMC to impose on itself as necessary, but don't effect the structure of the PPM

Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-29 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Berin Lautenbach wrote: Aaron Bannert wrote: ... How about this: The PPMC starts with every Incubator PMC person who wants on the PPMC. New PPMC members are then voted in by the current PPMC members. It's a start. But you also need the landing PMC members. Am not so sure about commi

Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-29 Thread Berin Lautenbach
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: IIUC this is what ATM we agree upon: The role of Mentor is a self-selecting title (eg. anyone wishing to become a Mentor and has the title to be one as described in our policy just adds themselves to the projects/index webpage + the project status page and joins the PP

Re: SpamAssassin status file

2003-12-29 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Sander Striker wrote: On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 00:27, Leo Simons wrote: Hi gang, could someone (mentor or someone else involved) please start writing and filling out a status file for spamassassin? I guess that's something for me to take care of. Maybe Dirk is able to fill in some blanks since he

Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-29 Thread Berin Lautenbach
Aaron Bannert wrote: I should finally add that we have basically agreed also that the PPMC is made of all PMC members and all the committers+landing PMC members, but that only the mentors must always be subscribed to the ppmc and dev mailing lists. Yuck, this is terminology overkill. We reall

Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-29 Thread Berin Lautenbach
Aaron Bannert wrote: On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 03:43:56PM +1100, Berin Lautenbach wrote: I'm confused by what you are saying. Do you believe there should be one person in an authoritative position for each PPMC or not? I am strongly against having "roles" within the ASF. Roles go against the way vol

Re: PPMCs and oversight

2003-12-29 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Aaron Bannert wrote: On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 12:44:40PM +0100, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: The role of Mentor is a self-selecting title (eg. anyone wishing to become a Mentor and has the title to be one as described in our policy just adds themselves to the projects/index webpage + the project st