At the risk of seeming trite, +1, but ... This lengthy proposal shifts the supervision responsibility of podlings from an big IPMC to a set of mentors approved by the board at the advice of a small iPMC. In other words, a project is born when three? foundation members, or others deemed appropriate by the small iPMC, are constituted as a project by the board, with one (the recently invented champion) as the chair.
It seems to me that this ups the ante quite a bit on the accidental argument I started about mentor qualifications. The board absolutely does not want to have to provide direct supervision all the podlings: that's what the Board's formal feedback to the IPMC just now is about. So, under this scheme, the particular mentors that make up the initial PMC of a project are the ones the Board is trusting, and if any step down, they absolutely need to be replaced. I support proposing this structure to the Board, but I wouldn't be terribly surprised if the answer is 'no'. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
