On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts <lo...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi > > On 10 November 2011 12:40, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote: >> I have noticed as each N-L project is ported that they are all unique. Each >> community has made its own choices about what is in the "site". At the ASF >> the PPMC must be responsible for governing the project. We must find a way >> to be a global community, yet we also need to follow a few rules. > > > I quite agree. The issue with us, was that we needed—or I felt we > needed—to grow exponentially, and fast. But at this point, I do > believe that autonomy is great, but autonomy without community is a > nonstarter, and a community only can sustain itself by agreeing to > core beliefs and practices. As we no longer have corporate overlords > here in Apache land, and as we really are a community driven thing, a > res publica, then I would suggest that one of our topmost orders of > business be the communal crafting and articulation and posting of a > manifesto—a declaration of identity within Apache—that gives guidance > as well as identity to Apache OO's members/contributors. >
We will need to have a "charter" when we graduate: http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#tlp-resolution Maybe you want to start drafting that on the wiki? Sure, graduation is a ways away, but there is no harm in having a scratchpad for recording ideas whenever anyone feels inspired. -Rob > Cheers > louis >
