On Mar 23, 2005, at 5:07 PM, Costin Manolache wrote:
Jim Jagielski wrote:The PMC Chair has "ultimate" authority, since the position is board appointed and results in the Chair being a VP of the ASF. There's no precedent for "sharing" the role or having a "co-Chair." The PMC Chair is the point man for the PMC.
Yes, we know - that's one of the reasons some people want this to be a 'rotating' position.
"Sharing" the role ( i.e. the tasks ) has a lot of precedents.
I have no problem with someone having this kind of authority - in projects like Linux or Python, where the guy in charge created the project in the first place. I am not confortable at all with having the 'ultimate' authority appointed - even when (in most cases) it is at the recomandation of the community. IMO it is the worse of both worlds.
The bylaws are quite clear, I think, regarding this:
Section 6.3. Project Management Committees. In addition to the officers of the corporation, the Board of Directors may, by resolution, establish one or more Project Management Committees consisting of at least one officer of the corporation, who shall be designated chairman of such committee, and may include one or more other members of the corporation. Unless elected or appointed as an officer in accordance with Sections 6.1 and 6.4 of these Bylaws, a member of a Project Management Committee shall not be deemed an officer of the corporation.
Each Project Management Committee shall be responsible for the active management of one or more projects identified by resolution of the Board of Directors which may include, without limitation, the creation or maintenance of "open-source" software for distribution to the public at no charge. Subject to the direction of the Board of Directors, the chairman of each Project Management Committee shall be primarily responsible for project(s) managed by such committee, and he or she shall establish rules and procedures for the day to day management of project(s) for which the committee is responsible
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