+1 for model 2. 2013/2/2 Christian Grobmeier <[email protected]>: > 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
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