Thanks, Jukka, I'd be honored to take on the role of VP in a
ManifoldCF top-level project.
Incorporating Jukka's invaluable advice, I've updated the proposed
resolution, and am opening a vote on it. Please vote +1 if you agree
that this is the resolution that should be presented, in total,
including myself in the role of Vice President, or -1 if you see
changes you would like to make (or if you'd like to nominate someone
else and hold a formal vote on the VP role).
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WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests
of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to
establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and
maintenance of open-source software for transferring content between
repositories or search indexes, for distribution at no charge to the
public;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee
(PMC), to be known as the "Apache ManifoldCF Project", be and hereby is
established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache ManifoldCF Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of open-source software for
transferring content between repositories or search indexes, for
distribution
at no charge to the public.
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, ManifoldCF" be and hereby
is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction
of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache ManifoldCF
Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the
projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache ManifoldCF
Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are
appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache ManifoldCF
Project:
* Shinichiro Abe (shinich...@apache.org)
* Erlend Garåsen (rid...@apache.org)
* Piergiorgio Lucidi (piergior...@apache.org)
* Hitoshi Ozawa (hoz...@apache.org)
* Tommaso Teofili (tomm...@apache.org)
* Simon Willnauer (sim...@apache.org)
* Karl Wright (kwri...@apache.org)
* Jukka Zitting (ju...@apache.org)
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Karl Wright be
appointed to the office of Vice President, ManifoldCF, to serve in
accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors
and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement,
removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be
it further
RESOLVED, that the initial Apache ManifoldCF Project be and hereby is
tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open
development and increased participation in the ManifoldCF Project; and
be it further
RESOLVED, that the initial Apache ManifoldCF Project be and hereby is
tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator
ManifoldCF podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibility pertaining to the Apache Incubator
ManifoldCF podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator PMC are
hereafter discharged.
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+1 from me.
Thanks again for the vote of confidence!
Karl
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:16 AM, Jukka Zitting <jukka.zitt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Karl Wright <daddy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Looks like we missed a step; we need a graduation resolution for the
>> board to vote on. Here's my proposal, basically copied from Apache
>> Chemistry's, but I have a question. Since no distinction is made
>> between the PPMC members and committers in this resolution, and since
>> many of the original committers/IPMC members have become inactive, and
>> others have not yet been voted in as PPMC members, how should we deal
>> with that?
>
> * Overall the resolution looks good, though note my comment on the scope
> below.
>
> * As discussed before, I don't think making a distinction between
> committers and (P)PMC members is useful for us. IMO such a setup only
> makes sense for "umbrella" projects like the Incubator and Lucene
> before it split out most of its subprojects. So my recommendation
> would be to make all (still active) committers also PMC members and
> stick with that policy going forward.
>
> * As for inactive people, you're already doing a good job asking them
> whether they still want to be involved. In case someone doesn't reply
> and hasn't shown up on the lists over the last year or so, it's fine
> to simply drop them from the resolution for lack of response.
>
>> Also, do we need to vote on who the vice president will
>> be? I believe we do... but maybe we can do this as part of the vote
>> on the resolution itself?
>
> You're already doing all the stuff a VP should be doing, and more, so
> I hereby nominate you to be the VP, Apache ManifoldCF. We can have a
> vote if other nominations are made, or consider you selected by lazy
> consensus otherwise.
>
>> WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests
>> of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to
>> establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and
>> maintenance of open-source software providing a framework for
>> transferring
>> content from source content repositories to target repositories or
>> indexes,
>> including a security model permitting target repositories to enforce
>> source
>> repository security, for distribution at no charge to the public;
>
> This is a pretty lengthy scope definition. Can we simplify it a bit?
>
> For example something like: "... open-source software for transferring
> content between repositories or search indexes". The details of how
> this is achieved (framework, security model, etc.) are IMHO best left
> outside the scope to allow more freedom down the line for the project
> to evolve.
>
>> RESOLVED, that the Apache ManifoldCF Project be and hereby is
>> responsible for the creation and maintenance of software providing a
>> framework for transferring content from source content repositories to
>> target repositories or indexes, including a security model permitting
>> target
>> repositories to enforce source repository security, for distribution
>> at no charge to the public.
>
> This should also be updated as discussed above.
>
> PS. If you don't mind, I'd be happy to stay on board the new
> ManifoldCF PMC at least for some time to help out with the transition
> to TLP.
>
> BR,
>
> Jukka Zitting
