On 12 April 2012 08:59, ant elder <ant.el...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Ross Gardler > <rgard...@opendirective.com> wrote: >> On 12 April 2012 07:48, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote: >> >> ... >> >>> Sorry, I can't remain mute, but I offended anyone, sorry, but this was >>> wrongly done. I don't know a better way.... >> >> As one of the "inner circle" I am not offended. All your points are >> valid. Thank you for sharing them. >> >> This was the first and, in all likelihood the last time such an >> unusual circumstance will arise. There is no right or wrong way of >> handling these things. >> >> Had we included x then y would have felt excluded, this is what we are >> seeing here. However, the line must be drawn somewhere. >> > > Surely at the ASF the line is at PMC membership. If only a subset of > the PPMC is trusted enough to be part of some inner circle then the > PPMC should be disbanded and reformed from just that inner circle.
This is a podling with a very unusual history. it is not as simple as that. However, your general observation is a valid one. The time for addressing this is during incubation when it becomes possible to determine who is contributing positively to the running of the PPMC. > Equally for the Incubator PMC, if Noel or who ever was chair should > have been told then the Incubator PMC should have been included. Yes, I've already acknowledged that in retrospect this should have been the case. Ross -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
