What's a chair?

[Henri Yandell <fl...@gmail.com>]

Following on from the last email - the major question would be whether
anyone would like to volunteer as a chair?

The question was raised on the Hivemind list as to what a chair
actually entailed. My reply is below - I'd be happy to join the PMC
mailing list (lurk, rather than be on the PMC) to help with any issues
that might arise post-promotion.

Because testing is a little bit of an umbrella (like
logging.apache.org) - the chair role will be a bit more than Hivemind
will be; but still not as much a bureacracy as
xml/webservices/jakarta.

Hen

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Henri Yandell <fl...@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 17, 2006 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: [DICUSS] Move from Jakarta to Tapestry PMC?
To: hivemind-dev@jakarta.apache.org


Jakarta is a very bad example of the role of a chair - umbrellas
create a lot of bureacracy and I make the mistake of letting myself
get sucked into it.

Ideally the chair role is:

1) Organizing the move to TLP. Howard's going through this one at the
moment. It's basically a set of infra requests and tasks. I'm
semi-Infra nowadays, so can help move these things along if you nudge
me. First off though: Have a vote to move to TLP, have 3 Jakarta PMC
members on that vote, inform the PMC. Then write a resolution (copy
Tapestry's) that I can submit to the board.

2) Subscribing to board@apache.org. As with any list it goes through
ups and downs in terms of noise. Currently it's quite quiet.

3) Sending in a board report every three months (every month for the
first three months). In the case of tight TLP, like
hivemind.apache.org, this is an easy thing to do (I think). You know
what's going on and you don't have to spend weeks chasing up on
things, you just sit down and write it, let the PMC see the draft a
little bit in advance and send it in. They're often about 6 lines
long, not the behemoth that the Jakarta report is.

It's really not that big a deal. I'll also be joining the pmc list
(unless you'd prefer me not to) and can help out if you hit any
issues.

Hen

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