On 8/19/2010 1:00 AM, Anjana G Bhattacharjee wrote:
ARCHIVAL NOTE ONLY as at 28 days since inception of this proposal -
My vote on this proposal if brought to vote would be
-1
Because
- Golf and the other aspects of the proposal have nothing to do with
software.
- The structure is ungoverned and falls totally outside of the Apache
pmc structure and seems to involve some sort of monarch (the Prime Mover).
- it is involves money unnecessarily, which is never a good idea.
- it is extremely complex, which is also never a good idea.
- I thought it was some sort of joke that I didn't understand and I
guess I was mistaken. Although I am not very smart, I think others might
also find it difficult to understand how a Prime Mover, golf and a WTF
fund have any relevance to the Apache Software Foundation.
The valid point to the proposal is that sometimes a less public address
is needed for reporting problems, especially misconduct. I think we
can accommodate such complaints in the existing private lists. e.g.
Problem with a specific project, you can send to
private@<project>.a.o, problem with a PMC or PMC member, you can send
to priv...@community.a.o, problem with a community PMC member or board
member, talk to a board member you trust. There is also legal-internal
if you think some law was broken. Documenting such an escalation
procedure, I think is a good idea and should be plenty to satisfy this
concern.
Back to fixing bugs for me.... I invite you again to join that effort.
After contributing to the foundation for a while and seeing how it works
[1], you can obtain sufficient merit to have an influence. I think
after you do, you will realize this proposal is not appropriate for the ASF.
Kathey
[1] http://apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html
