Re: svn commit: r178965 - /incubator/public/trunk/site-author/learn/newcommitters.html

2005-07-07 Thread David Crossley
Noel J. Bergman wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > > > Does the vote need to happen in view of the general public > > for that to be considered a legal decision of the project PMC? > > Of course not, nor have I seen anything that would inspire such a question. Great, glad that is resolved. I could

RE: svn commit: r178965 - /incubator/public/trunk/site-author/learn/newcommitters.html

2005-07-07 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At 02:16 PM 7/7/2005, Noel J. Bergman wrote: >Roy T. Fielding wrote: > >> I understand the concerns, but I still feel that project decisions >> should always be made in public. How about if the vote takes place >> in private and the announcement includes the final vote naming >> those who voted? >

Re: svn commit: r178965 - /incubator/public/trunk/site-author/learn/newcommitters.html

2005-07-07 Thread Jean T. Anderson
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: At 01:12 PM 7/7/2005, Jean T. Anderson wrote: For example, from various list threads (including some on this list) I'm gathering that a private list is necessary for discussions about: - personnel decisions - legal points - negotiations (could use a little expa

RE: svn commit: r178965 - /incubator/public/trunk/site-author/learn/newcommitters.html

2005-07-07 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Roy T. Fielding wrote: > I understand the concerns, but I still feel that project decisions > should always be made in public. How about if the vote takes place > in private and the announcement includes the final vote naming > those who voted? Since the vote requires a consensus, and therefore

Re: svn commit: r178965 - /incubator/public/trunk/site-author/learn/newcommitters.html

2005-07-07 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At 01:12 PM 7/7/2005, Jean T. Anderson wrote: >For example, from various list threads (including some on this list) I'm >gathering that a private list is necessary for discussions about: > > - personnel decisions > - legal points > - negotiations (could use a little expansion) Personnel de

Re: svn commit: r178965 - /incubator/public/trunk/site-author/learn/newcommitters.html

2005-07-07 Thread Jean T. Anderson
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: At 12:16 PM 7/7/2005, Ted Husted wrote: On 7/7/05, Roy T. Fielding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't believe we should have PMC lists (only dev and private), which is why your scenario doesn't apply in my model of how a project works. Could someone clarify on

RE: svn commit: r178965 - /incubator/public/trunk/site-author/learn/newcommitters.html

2005-07-07 Thread Noel J. Bergman
David Crossley wrote: > Does the vote need to happen in view of the general public > for that to be considered a legal decision of the project PMC? Of course not, nor have I seen anything that would inspire such a question. To the contrary, the commit that people are discussing documented two app

RE: svn commit: r178965 - /incubator/public/trunk/site-author/learn/newcommitters.html

2005-07-07 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Daniel John Debrunner wrote: > The history of this discussion was that folks were somewhat unhappy that > the Derby PPMC voted a committer in without following either of the ways > described I do not fault the Derby PPMC in any way. It has made every effort. Sometimes changes occur as a reactio

Re: svn commit: r178965 - /incubator/public/trunk/site-author/learn/newcommitters.html

2005-07-07 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At 12:16 PM 7/7/2005, Ted Husted wrote: >On 7/7/05, Roy T. Fielding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I don't believe we should have PMC >> lists (only dev and private), which is why your scenario doesn't >> apply in my model of how a project works. > >Could someone clarify on the difference between

Re: svn commit: r178965 - /incubator/public/trunk/site-author/learn/newcommitters.html

2005-07-07 Thread Ted Husted
On 7/7/05, Roy T. Fielding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't believe we should have PMC > lists (only dev and private), which is why your scenario doesn't > apply in my model of how a project works. Could someone clarify on the difference between "private" and "pmc". Is it just nomenclature

Re: svn commit: r178965 - /incubator/public/trunk/site-author/learn/newcommitters.html

2005-07-07 Thread Daniel John Debrunner
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > At 05:42 AM 7/7/2005, Roy T. Fielding wrote: >>Right now I see this process as a mixed bag that is made much >>harder by the disjoint between the incubator PMC and the incubated >>projects' private lists. I wonder what would happen if we made >>a single "[EMAIL PROT

Re: svn commit: r178965 - /incubator/public/trunk/site-author/learn/newcommitters.html

2005-07-07 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At 05:42 AM 7/7/2005, Roy T. Fielding wrote: >On Jul 6, 2005, at 3:42 AM, Ted Husted wrote: > >>IMHO, the idea of discussing the vote on the PMC list and then having >>the vote on the dev@ list sounds better on paper than in practice. In >>practice, the discussion becomes the vote, and creating a s

Re: svn commit: r178965 - /incubator/public/trunk/site-author/learn/newcommitters.html

2005-07-07 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Roy T. Fielding wrote: >> >> I think this is a particularly likely scenario when the >> voters-who-count != the project committers -- i.e., where the >> PMC != the committers. Those non-on-the-PMC committers are probably >> going to feel that their votes should

Re: svn commit: r178965 - /incubator/public/trunk/site-author/learn/newcommitters.html

2005-07-07 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Roy T. Fielding wrote: > > Perhaps we could change it to private votes and a slightly more > formal process for the announcement (along with a suggestion that > the existing committers congratulate the newbie in public)? In the scenario I personally consider th

Re: svn commit: r178965 - /incubator/public/trunk/site-author/learn/newcommitters.html

2005-07-07 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Ken expressed concern: > >> The candidate is now in the position of being privately >> blessed but publicly vilified. > > And this will differ how from an announcement that someone has been accepted > as a Committer, and people who did

Re: svn commit: r178965 - /incubator/public/trunk/site-author/learn/newcommitters.html

2005-07-07 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Jul 6, 2005, at 5:21 AM, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: I think I prefer the private vote, acceptance by the candidate, followed by a public announcement. Or else a pro forma vote which explicitly states 'only PMC members can vote.' (Which I don't think is a particularly community-building a

Re: svn commit: r178965 - /incubator/public/trunk/site-author/learn/newcommitters.html

2005-07-07 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Jul 6, 2005, at 3:42 AM, Ted Husted wrote: IMHO, the idea of discussing the vote on the PMC list and then having the vote on the dev@ list sounds better on paper than in practice. In practice, the discussion becomes the vote, and creating a second thread on the DEV list is just going through