On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > > On Monday, November 10, 2003, at 04:20 PM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > > > --On Monday, November 10, 2003 21:05:16 +0000 Stephen Colebourne > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> What I see and what I fear is having the control of the projects > >> which I > >> currently have being taken away and placed in the hands of people who > >> have > >> committed no code, have answered no user queries, don't use the > >> language > >> (Java) and have no sense of the complex component history and > >> personality > >> matrix of the commons community. > > > > I think you're missing the fact that you'd (or any other sizable > > committers on the projects that would migrate over) be on the Apache > > Commons PMC if you were to bring a project here. So, you would be > > legally empowered to control the project. > > > > The whole point is to *legally* and *ethically* return control to the > > committers by having them on the PMC - not to have the power vested in > > some remote bureaucratic entity like it is in Jakarta. -- justin > > > > Why do you call it a 'remote, bureaucratic entity'? I would argue that > it logically can't be if the allegation that it does nothing is true :) > > I assume the problem just goes away if each commons component has > representation on the PMC?
Or similarly, if jakarta-commons were to become a top level project? - Rod <http://radio.weblogs.com/0122027/>
