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Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:35:22 +0000
From: "robert burrell donkin" <robertburrelldonkin@gmail.com>
To: general@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: (P)odling PMC
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On 2/8/07, Craig L Russell <Craig.Russell@sun.com> wrote:
> I'd like to see some clarification on the role of the PPMC and the process
> of managing the PPMC membership. I've looked for guidance in the web pages
> and it's not clear to me what to do to vote in a new PPMC member, and then
> what to do.
>
> For example, in Incubation_Policy.html, there is no mention of the role of
> the PPMC or PPMC members under the section "Roles". There are roles defined
> for Champion, Sponsor, Mentor, and Committers, but nothing for PPMC or PPMC
> member.

yep: it's missing

> During incubation, I think that the PPMC members should get practice in
> calling votes for releases as well as discussing and calling votes for new
> committers and new PPMC members. These activities might be discussed in the
> "Incubation Activities" section of the policy.

+1

> I'll be happy to synthesize and report my understanding of the roles and
> processes and propose patches and file JIRA issues if this is considered
> valuable.

+1

please ping the list if i'm slow to respond (JIRAs often slip through)

- robert

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