Author: billie
Date: Tue Mar 25 16:55:20 2014
New Revision: 1581416
URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1581416
Log:
some clarifications
Modified:
accumulo/site/trunk/content/bylaws.mdtext
Modified: accumulo/site/trunk/content/bylaws.mdtext
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/accumulo/site/trunk/content/bylaws.mdtext?rev=1581416&r1=1581415&r2=1581416&view=diff
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--- accumulo/site/trunk/content/bylaws.mdtext (original)
+++ accumulo/site/trunk/content/bylaws.mdtext Tue Mar 25 16:55:20 2014
@@ -71,12 +71,14 @@ The responsibilities of the PMC include:
* Deciding what is distributed as products of the Apache Accumulo project.
* Maintaining the project's shared resources, including the code repository,
mailing lists, and websites.
+* Protecting and ensuring proper use of Apache trademarks by the project and
by other parties.
* Speaking on behalf of the project.
* Resolving license disputes regarding products of the project.
* Nominating new PMC members and committers.
* Maintaining these bylaws and other guidelines of the project.
In particular, PMC members must understand both our project's criteria and ASF
criteria for voting on a
[release](http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#management).
+See the [PMC Guide](http://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html) for more information
on PMC responsibilities.
Membership of the PMC is by invitation only and must be approved by a
consensus approval of active PMC members. Upon acceptance of the invitation to
become a PMC member, it is the accepting memberâs responsibility to update
their status on the Accumulo web page accordingly.
@@ -208,7 +210,7 @@ No other voting actions are defined; all
For the purposes of the "Adoption of New Codebase" action, the Accumulo
codebase is defined as the Accumulo site content, primary project code, and all
contributed code ("contribs") as they exist in their respective repositories.
Adoption of a new codebase generally refers to the creation of a new contrib
repository, but could cover, for example, a rework of the project site, or
merging a contrib project into the primary codebase.
-Voting actions for the removal of a committer or PMC member are intentionally
not defined. According to ASF rules, [committer status never
expires](http://www.apache.org/dev/committers.html#committer-set-term) and [the
ASF board removes PMC members](http://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html#pmc-removal).
+Voting actions for the removal of a committer or PMC member are intentionally
not defined. According to ASF rules, [committer status never
expires](http://www.apache.org/dev/committers.html#committer-set-term) and [PMC
members can only be removed with approval from the ASF
Board](http://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html#pmc-removal).
# Release Plans
