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From: "Stephen Colebourne" <scolebourne@btopenworld.com>
To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" <commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
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Subject: Re: [general] improvements to the charter
Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 12:05:47 +0100
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The second two sentences of 1.5.1 are also not a true representation of real
life.

Stephen

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henri Yandell" <bayard@generationjava.com>
> [hopefully all these general emails won't mean that only one turns into a
> living thread]
>
> I'd like to try and get us moving forward on the Commons charter a bit.
> It's easy to turn this into a long series of misunderstood arguments, so
> my first suggestion is hopefully something very unargumentative.
>
> [cf http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/charter.html]
>
> I'm proposing that we:
>
> **
> Remove (1.5.2) as it has never happened and is nothing our community is
> striving to make happen. This also involves a FAQ entry on the directory
> being removed.
>
> Remove (2) as this is not relevant to the charter nowadays, plus it's not
> even an accurate representation of the original components. If this
> information is deemed useful, we need to ask Craig to give us another
> history lesson and make some notes, probably elsewhere.
>
> Remove (3) as it is no longer relevant and should be documented in an
> available resources section. [ie) can a new Commons component use JIRA,
> where is our wiki etc].
> **
>
> I don't believe any of these are too big a deal and getting things moving
> will give us a foundation for future discussions. I think that a typical 3
> +1 and no -1 vote should be fine for such a thing [unless anyone knows of
> obscure rules], and will plan to send out such a vote on the above if no
> discussion occurs.
>
> Hen
>
>
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