-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Daniel John Debrunner wrote: > > Ken, obviously as you know I'm new to Apache voting and so I'm not > really understanding your post. > > The first question is are you starting a new vote or trying to add an > item to the vote I started?
neither, actually. :-) as podling mentor, i'm providing advice based on my experience. the db project has a documented and designed disparity between the pmc and the committer list. during incubation, podlings emulate pmc operation and become familiar with it via a 'ppmc' list. i am suggesting that the derby podling adopt a policy that all committers are automatically on the ppmc. i bring this up because i think the db project pages could be viewed as recommending that the members of the ppmc be a subset of the committer list. > The second is, are you voting on your issue only, or voting for the > issue I started the vote on? The URL after your vote is confusing me as > I would guess the appropriate URL for "my" vote would be > http://db.apache.org/guidelines.html. i am not voting; i am a mentor only, and a committer only by courtesy during incubation. if/when derby graduates, i expect i will no longer be a committer, which is appropriate since i don't know java and certainly not a db in java. the podling needs to be self-defining; it's part of my function to help that happen. i *don't* think it's part of my job to try to steer it by voting. the point i raise may not be considered directly relevant to the issue being voted, but i mention it because it's related. i don't think emulating *all* of the db project procedures is necessarily appropriate during incubation, since subsetting for the ppmc could be a barrier to community building. > Sorry if these are dumb questions. no dumb questions. ignorance is curable. i only hope i have some appropriate medicine. :-) - -- #ken P-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Ken.Coar.Org/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ "Millennium hand and shrimp!" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQCVAwUBQTYfCZrNPMCpn3XdAQFtbQQAoekwE1VJgbuU/c8o1r183hI4Yl6d1uU6 NLow+yY2Fb72LFOTnHbpCWkXnzkXHJiMWyYkcc29a7bkBxZ/6qTzGliB3j1KxNX4 VmX+z+gWPfmRaj2VxFGx4jNRurpEMBWHdE0/TKU/Dv6vDEz6i9OPBC8b+2SG2IB6 AHb1foyFo74= =Tms5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----