Hi all, when we graduate we need to form a PMC. There are two operational models I know In the ASF:
1) Committer == PMC I think this works OK if all people are nice and friends and know each other good. But personally I don't like it so much. Others think different and cannot see good reasons to differ between PMC and Committers. This model would say: everybody from the project has a binding vote. 2) Committer < PMC This model says, you can become committer and access source code. But when it comes to decisions only the PMC have binding votes. It doesn't mean a committer can't influence the project; it just says only PMC can really block things. I like this model more. The reason is, in future we might vote in new committers who we might not know so well. It might turn out they are not so nice as they looked in the beginning. I don't want to give out binding votes to people I don't know so well. In my opinion, option 2 gives us the chance to include people quicker. Option 1 would force us to look a long term to every individual and vote later. There are different views on both models. Of course we can decide on something else too. But for now I would love to see model 2 at Onami. Are there any other thoughts? What happens when graduating? When we graduate we need to form a PMC. it is also the time to "remove" persons from the project, when they are not longer interested and don't want to commit. We should look at our community and identify people who really drive Onami. Maybe we can simply ask our members if they want to join the PMC or not. I believe in our case folks who haven't got much time to help here, may want to stay committer and join as PMC later. Thats perfectly ok. Once we formed the PMC we should nominate potential chairs. A chair is the guy from the PMC who sends reports to the board. He doesn't have "super extra powers" inside the project. But actually I think the chair is a pretty respected person. The first I ask now is which model we would like to take. Please ask me anything you want to know on voting, pmc roles etc - now is the time and I have a couple of links. Cheers Christian -- http://www.grobmeier.de https://www.timeandbill.de
