Robert Burrell Donkin wrote:
> Martijn Dashorst wrote:
> > From the documents I have read on the policy for entering, being
> > inside and graduating from the incubator there is a lot of talk on
> > process, but not a lot of explanation on *why* the process is in
> > place, nor on how things are done.
It is fairly common to separate process from policy and justification. You
can see this in the Bible (the Written Law of the Torah and the Oral Law
explaining how to apply the Written Law), the US Constitution and the papers
written by the Framers, etc.
I personally favor a small set of processes that allow trusted people to
make decisions based upon their understanding of ASF philosophy over a more
elaborate and complex set of rules that govern people.
> > The first 'gripe' is the uncertainty for existing open source projects
> > that want to join the ASF that their current contributors will be
> > allowed to work on the project at Apache.
That should not be the case, and anyone who says otherwise is
misunderstanding policy.
> > The second gripe is the fact that only the Incubator PMC members of
> > the PPMC have binding votes. I think I understand the reasoning for
> > this, but it is not clear how the PMC members will excercise their
> > binding votes.
I expect them to exercise their oversight for the benefit of the community.
And I would also like to emphasize that vote counting is the absolute worst
form of decision making. Decisions should be a consensus. If there are
disagreements, work out a synthesis that makes everyone happy. If you
cannot, in the end, then the community can make the best available choice,
but whenever you cannot reach a true consensus, the community loses.
> the incubator PMC is almost entirely composed of apache members.
And the Apache Software Foundation Members are the owners (shareholders),
which means that they have the ultimate decision making authority in the
end.
> if a community does not trust the apache membership then it cannot trust
> apache and needs to create it's own organisation.
+1
> i estimate that the incubator PMC collectively has well over 200 years
> of collective open source experience.
I suspect that you're off by a significant upside multiplier.
> if the process is getting in the way and results in a community having
> to put itself on hold, then it needs to be improved. if anyone has any
> specific ideas, pull together a proposal to change the process.
Absolutely!
--- Noel
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