Hi all, For some time we've had this DRAFT bylaws document on the wiki: https://wiki.apache.org/metamodel/Bylaws
As Noah pointed out in another thread [1], the current bylaws wiki page raises a few concerns. And the question of Commit-The-Review (CTR) or Review-Then-Commit (RTC) is once again opened. I call for a discussion on what people's preferences are in terms of the things we want to have in our bylaws. The current wiki page is a very close adaptation of the Kafka project's bylaws, and maybe that was a wrong move, seeing that it didn't leave much room for us to come up with something from our own standpoints. My personal feelings on bylaws: I am thinking maybe we can cut down on the number of things we want to regulate, to make our own life easier. I think committers could be granted the right to follow a CTR process. Contributions from newcomers should obviously by reviewed by submitting patch files or pull requests and having a voting/approval procedure. Lazy concensus in such situations would maybe require more than 1 vote (2 or 3), since it's coming from a newcomer. Hope to get a lot of valuable feedback on this. And if anyone wants to take the lead on the bylaws I would be grateful, since I am myself a bit of a newcomer in this area! Kasper [1] Called "How to vote on a patch in JIRA".
