Oops, voted on the older, non-ammended proposal, when I meant to vote on the more recent one.
+1 -scott Brian Minchau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/14/2004 07:17:22 PM: > > > > > Hello Xalan developers, > this is a motion to transform Xalan into a top-level Apache project. It is > exactly the same as the last time I sent the motion, except for point 4, > which was this: > >> 4. The initial PMC members for this project will be Santiago > Pericas-Geertsen and Brian Minchau, who are the existing PMC members for > Xalan. > This point has been changed to include more PMC members. > > > I'm formally calling for a vote on this proposition which is to transform > Xalan from a sub-project of the Apache top-level XML project into a > top-level Apache project of its own. > > 1. The top-level Xalan project will contain the existing Xalan-J and > Xalan-C projects. > 2. The top-level Xalan project will initially contain no sub-projects. > 3. The initial committers for this project will be the existing committers > of the Xalan-J and Xalan-C. > 4. The initial PMC members for this project will be: > Dmitry Hayes > Matthew Hoyt > Christine Li > Ramesh Mandava > Brian Minchau (existing PMC member for Xalan) > Santiago Pericas-Geertsen (existing PMC member for Xalan) > Joanne Tong > Arun Yadav > Henry Zongaro > > 5. The initial PMC Chairperson will be Brian Minchau. > 6. The initial mission statement will be http://xml.apache.org/mission.html > , although terms such as "xml.apache.org project" should be read as "Xalan > project". > > > > ------------------------------------- > > In January and February of 2004 the idea of converting Apache XML project > into a "Federation" of top-level projects was discussed. > (see > http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi? > XMLProjectPages/FederationProposal > ) > > The reason this proposal is that the Apache Software Foundation by-laws > make assumptions about its structure, and the Board is concerened about > legally defending itself, such as better accountability on whether a given > release of a product was sanctioned. Releases, for example, are supposed to > be voted on by the PMC members responsible for a product. There needs to be > a verifiable link between the Board and the decision to make a release. > > From a practical point of view I don't see that we are going to loose any > connection with other sub-projects of the XML project. That connection is > either there or not, and being a top-level project won't change that. > > Being a top-level project will keep the management of Xalan clear of the > other XML sub-projects. > > In the future I see Xalan's own mission statement, with more realistic > rules on voting, but that is not part of this proposal. > > > Here is my +1 vote. > > > ---------- > Brian Minchau > XSLT Development, IBM Toronto > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
