Re: CFV: Nominate Andrew Haley as jdk6 Project Lead

2013-01-31 Thread Dalibor Topic
On 1/31/13 11:43 AM, Andrew Hughes wrote: > Why do the leads of the sponsoring groups get to determine the project > lead rather than the project's authors, committers, reviewers & previous > lead? > > Better? ;) Yes, thank you very much ;) Basically, because the bylaws say that's how it works.

Re: CFV: Nominate Andrew Haley as jdk6 Project Lead

2013-01-31 Thread Andrew Hughes
- Original Message - > Hi, Andrew. > > > Why do the members of a group get to determine the project lead, > > rather than the members of said project? > > That's the way that it's specified in the Bylaws: > > http://openjdk.java.net/bylaws#project-lead > > When a Project is created, or

Re: CFV: Nominate Andrew Haley as jdk6 Project Lead

2013-01-31 Thread Andrew Hughes
- Original Message - > On 1/30/13 7:52 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote: > > However, this raises an interesting point. Why do the members of a > > group get to determine the project lead, rather than the members of > > said project? > > Nope - The Group Leads of the Groups sponsoring the Project

Re: CFV: Nominate Andrew Haley as jdk6 Project Lead

2013-01-31 Thread Andrew Hughes
- Original Message - > On 01/30/2013 06:52 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote: > > I also don't see a single group lead by someone outside Oracle. > > You do now. > > Andrew. > > No. As far as I'm aware, the only group to be established as part of OpenJDK, rather than representing an internal Su

Re: CFV: Nominate Andrew Haley as jdk6 Project Lead

2013-01-31 Thread Andrew Haley
On 01/30/2013 06:52 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote: > I also don't see a single group lead by someone outside Oracle. You do now. Andrew.