Sounds great, Christian. +1
Scott On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Christian Grobmeier <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello all, > > I recently thought about the role of the Chair in an ASF project. > > Basically the Chair is the connection between project and the team. In > well working projects it means the chair writes reports and has > basically little to do. Still it seems that the chair gets some extra > attention when it is about decision making and performing new ideas. I > recently could observe this at the Apache Incubator. The Incubator has > (had) some problems and there were heated discussion how to solve it. > Finally Jukka Zitting arrived and somehow everybody trusted him > immediately. Jukka was elected as a chair and started to change things > in the Incubator. I must say he really does a great job and the > Incubator has become a better place now. > > One could say, Jukka could have done this job as PMC and there is no > need to be chair. But in fact, I feel this is wrong and just gray > theory. I am pretty sure electing him as a chair was a wise decision > and gave him the chance to influence the project more. > > That being said I think we need to do an annual election for this chair > role. > > If there are no other chair volunteers, the election is easy: just > confirm the current chair. If others want to take this role, let's > elect. > > Why should one become a chair? > > I guess, sometimes it is just interesting and exciting to look more > into the details of the ASF. I am not sure what my reasons are > exactly, but it's some combination of interest and fun. And I like > this community and want to help. > > With an annual election we would have the chance to get a yearly fresh > breath into this project. In addition, the weight of this role is not > so heavy as with an unlimited period. > > Thoughts? > > Cheers > Christian >
