Bylaws are not needed, but as somebody who grew another project without them, I can tell you that I wish we had them from the start.
On 14 November 2013 17:25, Henry Saputra <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, we need actual VOTE when the draft is somewhat ready but looks > like there are some changes need to be made. > > Arvind made a point about having our own bylaws may be not needed but > I do believe if we want to just "inherit" from ASF bylaws we need some > kind of guidelines on how Metamodel operates. > This will contains some exceptions to the rule to move things faster > than larger ASF communities. > > Such as RTC, maybe we could relax it by having lazy consensus for patches. > > - Henry > > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: >> The definitions in our by-laws are incorrect. This is a product of the >> fact that Apache Kafka's bylaws are also incorrect. >> >> Specifically, lazy consensus is "silence is consent", and definitely >> not "3 +1 votes". >> >> Fortunately, Apache Hadoop's bylaws seem to have the correct >> definitions here. So I would suggest we update ours. >> >> I would also suggest that we at least have a vote on this (either the >> modification, or the official adoption of this document by the >> project) in accordance with our own bylaws. :) >> >> On 30 September 2013 10:26, Kasper Sørensen >> <[email protected]> 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 >> >> >> >> -- >> Noah Slater >> https://twitter.com/nslater -- Noah Slater https://twitter.com/nslater
