+1 Thanks for starting this discussion Brett.
Not being tied to Maven also presents us with the option to grow beyond the scope of a Maven repository manager so what we can support other similar tools if the niche presents itself. On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:04 +1100, Brett Porter wrote: > Ok, seems there is some interest in putting together a proposal. I'm > going to follow the same format we used at Continuum last month. > > Before we continue to vote on a proposal to send to the board, we need > to: > > 1) Decide on a charter for the project. > > "the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to ..." "The Apache Archiva project is the creation and maintenance of open-source software relating to the storage, retrieval and management of build system artifacts." I think this sums up the scope of the project well enough. > Any thoughts on this? > > 2) Nominate a chair to put in the proposal > > I would like to nominate Deng as the chair of the project. I think the > work she has done in making sure releases happened consistently, > answering users questions, and following up contributions has > contributed a lot to the growth of the project recently. > +1 I believe Deng is probably the most involved person across all areas of the project, as Brett has mentioned. This makes her more than competent to chair the proposal. > Are there any other nominations or seconds? > > 3) Agree on the initial committers and PMC list > > I have the current committers list as: > Maria Odea Ching ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Fabrice Bellingard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Nicolas de Loof ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Joakim Erdfelt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Arnaud Heritier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Dennis Lundberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Jesse McConnell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Brett Porter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Edwin Punzalan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Carlos Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Wendy Smoak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > John Tolentino ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Emmanuel Venisse ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > (removed Henri Yandell as he went emeritus already from Maven) > > Anyone on that list that doesn't feel they should be a committer? Did > I miss anyone? +1 > Cheers, > Brett >
