I agree that we should not be too rigid wrt. doing everything "by law" instead of the choices that are natural for our community. So maybe we should revisit the minimal amount of votes etc. to make sure that we don't enforce too strict bylaws or anything like that.
2013/10/1 Henry Saputra <[email protected]> > No worries Arvind, I always appreciate your useful input as usual =) > > I think as part of incubating process if along the way the bylaws > seems to be not as useful as we want it to be we could always revisit > before graduating. > > - Henry > > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Arvind Prabhakar <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Thanks for clarifying Henry. If you have seen this work well for smaller > > projects then it certainly must add value. I was stating my perspective > on > > it only. > > > > Regards, > > Arvind Prabhakar > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Henry Saputra <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > >> Hey Arvind, > >> > >> I actually asked Kasper to create proposed by laws. > >> > >> From my experience with other Apache projects having clear by laws how > >> podling should operate helps clarify some friction between contributors > and > >> new potential contributors. > >> > >> Since the project is small I think it is good time to have before it is > too > >> late. > >> > >> - Henry > >> > >> On Monday, September 30, 2013, Arvind Prabhakar wrote: > >> > >> > Hi Kasper, > >> > > >> > Thanks for putting the Bylaws together. While I don't think there is > >> > anything wrong in having bylaws in place, I do want to mention that > they > >> > are typically used for projects that may have significant contention > in > >> > operation and management. In the projects that I have actively worked > on, > >> > we do not have any bylaws and whenever there is a policy decision > needed > >> - > >> > we just vote on it accordingly. It works very well for us as a matter > of > >> > fact. > >> > > >> > This of course is a personal choice for the project and hence it is > >> > entirely upto you and MetaModel community to drive this. I just > wanted to > >> > share this other point of view so that you are well informed. > >> > > >> > Regards, > >> > Arvind Prabhakar > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Henry Saputra < > [email protected] > >> <javascript:;> > >> > >wrote: > >> > > >> > > Cool stuff Kasper, thanks for doing this. > >> > > > >> > > Would definitely love some inputs from other people in the > community =) > >> > > > >> > > - Henry > >> > > > >> > > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 1:26 AM, Kasper Sørensen > >> > > <[email protected] <javascript:;>> wrote: > >> > > > Hi everyone, > >> > > > > >> > > > I've adapted the bylaws of projects such as Apache Kafka and > Hadoop > >> > into > >> > > a > >> > > > set of bylaws for MetaModel. Since we're still a pretty small > >> community > >> > > (my > >> > > > impression at least) I downsides some of the minimal amount of > votes > >> > > > required in the 'actions' section though. Would love everyone's > input > >> > on > >> > > > the bylaws - if anything is missing, incorrect, not how you'd > like to > >> > see > >> > > > it or whatever might come up! > >> > > > > >> > > > The draft bylaws can be found here: > >> > > > https://wiki.apache.org/metamodel/Bylaws > >> > > > > >> > > > Kind regards, > >> > > > Kasper > >> > > > >> > > >> >
