On 9/30/2013 7:19 PM, Justin Mclean wrote:
Hi,
Looks like as part of the graduation process that we didn't get together and
come up with a list of bylaws for Apache Flex.
Some example Apache project bylaws:
http://hadoop.apache.org/bylaws.html
http://cloudstack.apache.org/bylaws.html
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Bylaws
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Bylaws
http://ant.apache.org/bylaws.html
As well as listing out the roles and responsibilities on the project it needs
to spell out the voting rules.
Here's some of the things we would need to reach consensus on. If PMC members
(and others) could indicate
their preferences to there questions below we'll start getting a document
together based on this what other
Apache projects have done.
If you have no strong preference indicate that and this is not a vote, just
more of what you think bests fits in our
community.
1. Voting procedure for committers
a) lazy-majority (more +1s than -1s)
b) lazy-consensus (no -1's)
c) consensus (3 +1's no -1's)
b
2. Voting procedure for PMC members
a) lazy-majority (more +1s than -1s)
b) lazy-consensus (no -1's)
c) consensus (3 +1's no -1's)
d) 2/3 majority (3 +1's and twice an many +1 as -1)
c
3. Voting procedure for Chair
a) lazy-majority (more +1s than -1s)
b) lazy-consensus (no -1's)
c) consensus (3 +1's no -1's)
d) 2/3 majority (3 +1's and twice an many +1 as -1)
c
4. Length of term of Chair
a) until they resign
b) 1 year
d) reviewed every year with option to continue
c) other
d
5. Voting procedure on changing bylaws
a) lazy-majority (more +1s than -1s)
b) lazy-consensus (no -1's)
c) consensus (3 +1's no -1's)
d) 2/3 majority (3 +1's and twice an many +1 as -1)
d
I notice other Bylaws use the word active a lot eg "active PMC", "active
committers", but don't seem to define it.
Should we try and define or at least give some guidelines what an active person
on the project is?
There seems to be a vague "not contributing to the project for 6 months" in one
or two of the existing bylaws.
I guess we'd have to define formally what a contribution is. Is it
activity on a mailing list? Actual commits? Jira activity? Mailing
list moderation?
It sounds like it is a hard thing to concretely define.
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