+1 to submit the draft TLP resolution. +1 to nominate Craig as VP.
-Ted. On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 11:20:01 -0800 (PST), Martin Cooper wrote: > Following up on a brief thread on this list in December [1], Craig, > Ted and I have put together a draft resolution to the board of > directors [2], along with a cover letter [3], that would promote > Struts to an Apache top-level project (TLP). > > The main reasons for moving to a TLP are described on the wiki [4]. > In Craig's words, "The short answer, though, is we will be in > charge of our own releases (currently, the Jakarta PMC is the only > body legally recognized to vote on releases of *any* software under > Jakarta)." In practice, we can really just continue doing what > we've always done. > > As most of you are no doubt aware, several Jakarta sub-projects > have already made the transition to TLPs, including Ant, Avalon, > Gump, James, Log4J, Maven, OJB, and Torque. Most Jakarta PMC > members seem to be in favour of the migrations, largely because a > single PMC cannot possibly oversee a code base the size of all of > Jakarta. > > If you're OK with Struts being a top-level Apache project, please > respond to this thread with either a +1 or +0. Otherwise, please > reply with your concerns. When we previously discussed this, it did > not seem like anyone was opposed to the idea, but if anyone is, now > is the time to speak up. > > The resolution as drafted lists the Struts Committers who could > reasonably be considered active at this time. Of course, we should > not put anyone on the PMC without their buy-in, so the final > resolution would only list the Committers who responded to the Vote > with a +1 or +0. > > The draft resolution also leaves the name of the Vice President > blank. Craig seems like the logical candidate, and is willing to > act in this capacity, but we wanted the VP selection to be a > community decision. So, please also respond with your nomination > for Vice President, Apache Struts. > > Here's my +1 on the resolution as drafted, and my +1 for Craig as > Vice President. > > -- > Martin Cooper > > > [1] > http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/SearchList?listId=&listName=struts- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]&searchText=%22Why+you+*want* > +to+be+on+the+PMC%22&defaultField=subject&Search=Search > [2] http://www.apache.org/~martinc/struts/tlp/resolution.html [3] > http://www.apache.org/~martinc/struts/tlp/cover.html [4] > http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?JakartaPMCPropsedChanges > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]