rwaldhoff 01/04/10 09:23:04 Added: amend README.txt amendment.txt Log: initial check in put here for easy reference. will be removed soon. Revision Changes Path 1.1 jakarta-commons-sandbox/amend/README.txt Index: README.txt =================================================================== [$Id: README.txt,v 1.1 2001/04/10 16:23:04 rwaldhoff Exp $] The Commons charter (http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/charter.html) currently states (in the Guidelines section): "17. New packages may be proposed to the Jakarta Commons mailing list. To be accepted, a package proposal must receive a positive super-majority vote of the subproject committers. Proposals are to identify the rationale for the package, its scope, its interaction with other packages and products, the Commons resources, if any, to be created, the initial source from which the package is to be created, and the initial set of committers. "1. The whole number of positive votes needed for a super majority is calculated by dividing the total number of active subproject committers by four, multiplying by three, and rounding to the nearest whole number (>= .5 rounds up)." It has been suggested by several committers that this guideline is undesirable due to the number of votes required to accept a proposal. (This suggestion is backed up by the observation that, despite what you see in the CVS repository, currently no Commons proposal has been accepted according to this metric.) Hence I suggest that we amend the Commons charter, striking out the existing Guideline #17 (and #17.1) and replace it with the Guidelines listed in the amendment.txt file in this directory. I've placed this file in the sandbox for handy reference. It will be removed as soon as the amendment is resolved (positively or negatively). - Rod Waldhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1.1 jakarta-commons-sandbox/amend/amendment.txt Index: amendment.txt =================================================================== [$Id: amendment.txt,v 1.1 2001/04/10 16:23:04 rwaldhoff Exp $] 17. Accepting New Packages and Components 17.1. New packages may be proposed to the Jakarta Commons mailing list. Proposals are to identify the rationale for the package, its scope, its interaction with other packages and products, the Commons resources, if any, to be created, the initial source from which the package is to be created, and the initial set of committers. 17.2. Any Developer may vote on any proposal. However, the only binding votes are those cast by a Committer to the Commons subproject. 17.3. Seven days (168 hours) after a proposal is submitted, if it has received at least three binding +1 votes and no binding -1 votes, the proposal is accepted. 17.4. At any time after seven days (168 hours) from the time a proposal is submitted, if it has received at least three +1 votes and a positive super majority of binding votes cast, the proposal is accepted. 17.4.1. The whole number of positive votes needed for a super majority as described in 17.4 is calculated by dividing the total number of binding votes cast by four, multiplying by three, and rounding to the nearest whole number (>= .5 rounds up). 17.5. If at any time a proposal receives a positive super majority of all subproject Committers, the proposal is accepted. 17.5.1. The whole number of positive votes needed for a super majority as described in 17.5 is calculated by dividing the total number of Commons subproject Committers by four, multiplying by three, and rounding to the nearest whole number (>= .5 rounds up).
