On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> wrote: > I am in favor of this and frankly wish it was ASF policy. IMO doing this > annually is good for the project and and should make the existing chair feel > like it isn't happening because people are unhappy with them. If we do this > I would suggest adding it to the Logging project guidelines page with a > fixed date.
+1 I propose the week after the annual members meeting for the election date. It is easy to remember imho > > Ralph > > On 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 -- http://www.grobmeier.de https://www.timeandbill.de
