Thanks a lot, Geir. :-)
Richard Liang
China Software Development Lab, IBM
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote:
> *Absolutely* no trouble!
>
> Everyone is invited, nay *encouraged* to vote, because everyone's
> opinion should be taken into consideration for things like this,
> committer or not.
>
> <hat type="mentor">
>
> Info :
>
> *Legally* speaking, the only votes that count are those of the project
> PMC (Project Management Committee), when graduated from incubator, or
> the Incubator PMC, when in incubator. The goal is to have 100% of the
> committers on the PMC for any project, of course, although that's
> rarely realized for a number of reasons.
>
> That said, if you have the situation where the PMC is going a
> different direction from the committers, or the community at large, it
> better be a very exceptional situation!
>
> The idea of the PMC is not to establish any kind of hierarchy or
> bestow status or magical powers on individuals, but simply organize
> the structure of ASF projects in a way that's aligned with US
> Corporate law in a way that a lawyer and a court would recognize
> (because the ASF is a US non-profit corporation.)
>
> Thus, the membership of the ASF elects a Board of Directors (like
> stockholders appoint a corporate board), and the Board then authorizes
> the creation of Top Level Projects and appoints an individual, the PMC
> Chair, as an ASF corporate officer, to oversee the project's PMC. The
> point is just to have visible and defendable accountability for the
> actions of a project done in the name of the ASF (accepting code,
> adding committers, making releases, etc)
>
> The Harmony PPMC is really like a "provisional" PMC that goes through
> the motions in preparation of being a fully-empowered PMC, but it has
> no legally binding authority. However, the Incubator PMC, in it's
> role of oversight, will simply "rubberstamp" any PPMC decision as long
> as it's sane and proper. The PPMC decision for things like code
> acceptance and releases are done in public, and implicit w/in the
> general vote (which is why we don't call out for a special PPMC-only
> vote...) We learn by doing.
> </hat>
>
> geir
>
> (Also - participation is how people get to become committers, too :)
> Keep participating :))
>
> Richard Liang wrote:
>> Dear Geir,
>>
>> Just realize I'm not a committers after I'm too impertinent to read
>> your notes clearly. :-) Sorry again.
>>
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