Mike posted the board reccomendation at the begining of this thread. Much of the heat on the PMC list is a lack of consultation and exposure of this issue.
Sombody must know what they were thinking, but its not me. -jsd Michael McGrady wrote: > Does anyone have the "recommendation" or the reasoning? There seems to > be a dirth of information on what they were thinking about. Just to > assume that representatives of the various projects know more than the > members of the projects about this issue is not a good way to go, in my > opinion. > > Mike > > At 06:01 AM 3/12/2004, you wrote: > >> Adrian, >> >> As far as I can see, the discussion is happening on many project >> lists, and on the pmc list. You would think [EMAIL PROTECTED] would be >> a better forum, but its quiet there. >> >> Because this is a board "recomendation" individual projects have to >> make their own dicisions on wether to implement it or not. >> HttpClients committers and community will have to decide to do this or >> not for HttpClient. As HttpClient is still part of Commons, this >> decision could be defered to all of Commons, but given HttpClients top >> level aspirations, I would encourage HttpClient to make this decision >> on its own. >> >> -jsd >> >> >> Adrian Sutton wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> I understand that people have a lot to say on this topic, however >>> this is >>> most definitely not the list to say it on. No one on this list has the >>> legal authority to represent or make decisions on behalf of the ASF >>> and this >>> is an ASF decision. The recommendation that author tags not be used >>> came >>> down from the board of the ASF which does have the ability to make such >>> decisions, nothing we say here will change that. >>> >>> I certainly don't intend to tell people not to voice their opinions >>> on this >>> matter, every decision in the ASF can potentially be reversed but such >>> issues need to be taken to the ASF board or at least the PMC (the PMC is >>> apparently already hotly debating this topic). >>> >>> My biggest problem at the moment is thinking of a list that >>> non-committers >>> can subscribe to that would be appropriate for this conversation. >>> license@ >>> is closed, community@ is closed board@ is closed, pmc@ is closed. Where >>> exactly is the best place for these conversations to take place in a >>> manner >>> that is open to contributions from everyone? >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Adrian Sutton. >>> >>> ======================================================================= >>> Kangaroo Point MarchFest is an annual festival of music, art, food and >>> culture, that aims to build community spirit and bring all types of >>> people together for a time of fun and entertainment. >>> Sat March 20th, midday till 10pm, at Kangaroo Point Uniting Church. >>> http://www.soulpurpose.com.au/marchfest >>> ======================================================================= --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
