I have one (hopefully) simple question for those more familiar with the
ASF\s bylaws/etc.
As I understand it, the board has delegated responsibility for the
incubator, and thus incubator podlings, to the Incubator PMC and its
members. Thus, it is only members of the Incubator PMC that have the
ability to vote. This much is straight-forward.
So, the question is, what options does the Incubator PMC have in terms
of further delegating responsibility? Can the Incubator PMC delegate
(some) responsibility to people who are not themselves incubator PMC
members? To do so, does the Incubator PMC need to inform the board of
the change of composition of 'sub-committees'?
My thought is that if we can clarify what is legally possible, we will
be better placed to find the appropriate model for the incubator that
fits within those legal/bylaw bounds.
Upayavira
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013, at 06:47 AM, Marvin Humphrey wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote:
> > Certainly this is being addressed and fixed in the current 1.0.1
> > release thread...
>
> Indeed.
>
> > So why is something 2 months old such a bee in your bonnet right now?
>
> I chose to highlight the Allura situation because it illustrates that
> IPMC
> release vote scarcity can strike your podling at any time regardless of
> how
> virtuous and healthy it is. If it can happen to Allura, a podling with
> fabulous contributors and outrageously qualified Mentors, it can happen
> to
> anyone.
>
> I could have instead cited other lengthy release votes: VXQuery (over a
> month
> now and still waiting), ODF Toolkit (20 days), Droids (probably the
> all-time
> record holder), Bloodhound (so frustrating that Brane coded up the voting
> monitor), ManifoldCF... but none of those podlings boasted Allura's
> all-star
> Mentor lineup.
>
> The point was to pick a podling with Mentors whose dedication to the ASF
> was
> unassailable ("AWOL Mentors" don't attend Board meetings!) because then
> nobody
> could blame the delay on insufficient Mentor dedication. I don't think
> it's a
> bad thing that podling core developers are inherently more invested in
> their
> projects than Mentors -- it's just a fact of life that we ought to
> accommodate
> ourselves to. Vote scarcity is not the fault of any one Mentor, or any
> group
> of Mentors -- it's just a phenomenon which is *guaranteed* to happen some
> of
> the time because the Incubator is structurally flawed.
>
> Still, because my point was awkwardly crafted, I wound up singling out
> the
> Allura team in a negative context. I apologize for my clumsiness.
>
> Marvin Humphrey
>
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