----- Original Message ---- > From: Ted Leung <twle...@sauria.com> > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 2:34:50 PM > Subject: Re: Making up policy on the fly > > > On Aug 19, 2009, at 11:17 AM, Joe Schaefer wrote:
> > Why do we need someone to dig up a URL to believe what infrastructure > > people > have > > been saying consistently? If we tell you something is best-practice, why > > do > *we* > > have to defend ourselves? Why aren't the people on the IPMC actually > *required* to > > read /dev/release.html as a precondition to being put on this PMC? > > Shouldn't > people > > *know* what the actual position of the foundation is before running around > casting > > foundation votes? > > As far as I know, the only condition to being put on this PMC is that a > member > ask to be added. We don't have any kind of criteria to be on the PMC. If > you > think that we need some additional policy for that, be my guest. As far as > infrastructure people needing to defend themselves: This PMC operates by > quoting written ASF policy to podlings so that the podlings can do the > *right* > thing. It's not a matter of questioning you or anyone else on > infrastructure. What we tell people is "there are rules here". If we want > to > be known as a fair, level-playing-field organization, those rules need to be > written down. This PMC is a major part of our interface to the rest of the > world. That face should be fair, consistent, repeatable, and as free of > frustration and controversy as possible. How's this for writing down the rules: http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html#best-practice-license --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
