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Posted to general@jakarta.apache.org by Dirk-Willem van Gulik <di...@covalent.net> on 2002/02/12 21:21:58 UTC
Jakarta 2002 PMC: Committers - please vote.
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Committers,
Your votes please. Below you'll find 10 fine people running for the seven
seats on the Jakarta PMC - you have seven votes.
Place 7 'y's between the brackets to vote; and return this message to
jvote@apache.org before the 19th of February 0.00 GMT. Make sure you
fill out your apache user id in the second section of the form.
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1.[ ] Stefan Bodewig
2.[ ] Craig McClanahan
3.[ ] Paulo Gaspar
4.[ ] Morgan Delagrange
5.[ ] Diane Holt
6.[ ] Geir Magnusson Jr.
7.[ ] Costin Manolache
8.[ ] Conor MacNeill
9.[ ] Sam Ruby
10.[ ] Scott Sanders
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Again: Your vote has to be send to
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After validation of your vote; we will removed your identity from the
message prior to counting.
At the end of this message you will find a short statement made by the
nominee about his or her envisaged role on the PMC.
You have 7 votes. Nothing more; nothing less. Any votes not used
automatically counts as abstained.
If you use more than 7 votes - or when it is unclear whom you meant to
vote for - then your votes are not counted in any way. Up to one vote per
nominee (i.e. you cannot put all your 7 votes on one(1) person).
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Dirk-Willem van Gulik (0xEC140B81)
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The election committee will verify each vote received by email to your
@apache.org address. We will then tally the results and publish the names
of the seven people with the largest number of votes and publish the
number of valid ballots received to general@jakarta.apache.org.
Yours,
Dirk-Willem van Gulik
Schedule Jakarta PMC 2002:
x 0:00 GMT - 2002-2-7 Nominations close
x 0:00 GMT - 2002-2-9 Publication of candidate list.
x Publication of voters list.
x 0:00 GMT - 2002-2-12 Candidate list final and announced.
Voters list final and announced.
Voters receive their ballots.
Ballot opens
0:00 GMT - 2002-2-19 Ballot closes
0:00 GMT - 2002-2-21 Voters receive confirmation of their vote
0:00 GMT - 2002-2-22 Final tally made and published.
0:00 GMT - 2002-2-22 Archive handed over to the ASF
board secretariat.
Nominations:
Nominated and accepted by the nominee:
Stefan Bodewig
Craig McClanahan
Paulo Gaspar
Diane Holt
Morgan Delagrange
Geir Magnusson Jr.
Costin Manolache
Conor MacNeill
Sam Ruby
Scott Sanders
Nominated - but not accepted by the nominee:
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Nominated - but declined by the nominee:
Jason van Zyl
Ted Husted
Jon Stevens
Ceki Gulci
Donald Peter
Blurp for those nominees who accepted:
Stefan Bodewig (accepted)
I am a committer for the Ant project since June 2000 and have been the
release manager of Ant's very first release. Since October 2000 I am a
member of the Apache Software Foundation. At work I use many of the other
Jakarta projects, but I'm mostly a lurker with an occasional bug fix.
I'm am "interim GUMP run junkie" and try to fix changes in Ant that break
other build processes before these other projects even realize the
problem.
Craig McClanahan (accepted)
You can find out more about me on the Struts "Who We Are" page:
http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/userGuide/volunteers.html
At Apache, I got involved in the Apache JServ project before there was a
Jakarta (along with other long timers like Jon, Pier, and Stefano), and at
the ApacheCon just after the Tomcat source code was finally handed over to
Apache, told James Duncan Davidson in front of several hundred people that
the Sun code sucked ;-). (Want proof? Just go back to the sources for
Tomcat 3.0, but don't do this on a full stomach ;-).
Over the last couple of years, I've been a big-time contributor on Tomcat
(Catalina's architecture is basically what Apache JServ 2.0 was going to
be), Struts (I'm the primary architect), and Commons. Along the way, I've
been somewhat less involved with Taglibs and Watchdog. I'm also a pretty
good chunk of Apache's "user support" on the TOMCAT-USER list.
I believe in Apache's goals w.r.t. open sourcing Java. I don't have a lot
of patience for diatribes and mailing list flame fests -- they tend to be
counterproductive to these goals. Therefore, you'll see more CVS commits
than discussion participation from me when the topic strays in those
directions. (Interestingly, the overall level of CVS commits seems to be
inversely proportional to the vitriol in the current discussions ...)
One last note -- as most of you are probably aware, I work for Sun. If
that fact, by itself, affects your vote, then you need to think about how
much you really believe in Apache's credo that contributors should be
judged on what they do, not who they work for. (I'm sure you can find
plenty of other reasons not to vote for me, if that's what you want ;-).
Paulo Gaspar (accepted)
Ok, now that I understand better how a PMC nomination works, it looks like
I have to say something about me besides just saying that I accept - which
I do.
I work on software development for almost 15 years and I only started
using Apache software less than 2 years ago. I got addicted very fast.
As many of you probably noticed, I do not believe on quietly "accepting
the facts". I also believe on defending my interests without hurting
others and I often spend "too much" effort defending what I consider fair.
And I do it for selfish reasons - I am depending on loads of Jakarta
software and I do not believe the Jakarta Project will survive unless we
all win something.
Diane Holt (accepted)
I would like to nominate Diane Holt for the PMC. Diane is a current PMC
member and a committer on the Ant subproject. I think Diane brings a
somewhat different perspective from the typical hardcore developer types
here at Jakarta. I think that balance would be a good thing for the PMC.
Morgan Delagrange (accepted)
I've been a Jakarta committer for approximately 13 months, 2 weeks. I
started out on Taglibs, where I contributed a couple of taglibs to round out
the "scope" taglibs: session, application, request and application. Soon
afterwards I donated the tag library which came to be known as "DBTags", a
tag library for basic JDBC access. Ironically all of these tags will
probably be trumped by the "standard" tag library, which is now available as
an Early Access release. Looks like I might need a new project!
I'm also a committer on the Commons project. I have worked on DBCP, the
Logging component, HTTPClient, Latka (Latka is a functional testing program
with an XML interface), and the Commons charter.
Geir Magnusson Jr. (accepted)
I accept the nomination for re-election to the PMC. I have several basic
beliefs related to the subject of jakarta governance :
o That Java as a platform is facing some challenges, and that open source
practitioners, especially the Jakarta project, can help play a big role in
making Java a more open, and therefore stronger platform.
o The Jakarta sub-projects should be in charge of their destiny, able to
self-govern according to the dictates of the sub-project community with
minimal constraints, such as those imposed by the Apache Software
Foundation's licensing and rules on IP, and the traditions of meritocracy
encoded in the Jakarta guidelines.
o That the Jakarta project is strongest when there is a clear scope and an
active community of like-minded individuals. We are a large project and
must carefully manage our growth as we go forward.
In simple terms, a collection of strong states with a weak central
government to provide for common defense.
I am an EE and physicist by training, and have been a semi- and professional
programmer for about 15 years. My work has been in the domains of digital
audio processing, image processing, Monte Carlo simulation of physical
systems, 'real-time' financial market data delivery, and lately Java server
infrastructure and applications, with a particular bent towards templating.
I am relatively new to Apache and Jakarta, but have been a longtime fan of
open source as a user. My major contributions to Jakarta are in the Velocity
project, having joined the project just after inception. (Come take a look
at our latest - Velocity-Struts integration and DVSL, another kind of XML
transformation tool). Since then, I helped establish the Commons project,
and have made minor contributions to one or two components. Recently, my
major contributions to Commons seem to be non-cvs-related mail list traffic.
I don't expect many votes from there... :) I am also a very inactive
committer in one of the turbine sub-projects, stratum.
And I don't work for anyone at the moment :)
Costin Manolache (accepted)
After some thinking, I'm going to accept the nomination, even
if I don't quite believe jakarta needs 'management', 'committee' or
any other function besides 'jakarta commiter'.
My Apache background: I've used Apache, linux, java servlets since the
beginning ( or close enough ). I've learned that code is easy to write and
doesn't matter that much - but solving problems, learning from others and
getting involved.
I've worked on tomcat, moving code around and trying to improve on what
other people have done. Also some of the first ant tasks ( including the
<property> that everyone hates ), and many flame wars.
Overall, the high point for me on jakarta was not seeing tomcat released (
and used ), but getting other people to join and working with some amazing
people, and seeing code like tomcat or ant 'live' and evolve, regardless
of the code authors beeing around or not. Just compare the first version
of ant or tomcat3.0 with the current versions, and compare the list of
commiters then with today - and you'll see what I mean.
Conor MacNeill (accepted)
I became involved with Apache through Tomcat in late 99, contributing some
patches, bug fixes, etc. I had some problems building Tomcat with Ant, so
I focussed on fixing it and that began a long journey of contributing to
Ant, which is where I still make most of my contributions today. I think
the concept of community in Jakarta is important and I have made some
great friends as a result, most of whom I have never actually met in
person.
Outside of Apache, I have developed software professionally for 14 years
ranging from hardware design, embedded operating systems written in
assembler, telecoms network software, network management, banking systems
and most recently J2EE systems for eCommerce.
I spell colour with a "u", licence with a "c" unless it is a verb and I like
Christmas at the beach. If you want to know more, send me an email.
Geir, I'm trying to remove classpath/classloader pain from Ant but no
promises :-)
Sam Ruby (accepted)
My first exposure to open source was when I wanted to integrate PHP with
Tomcat. I found PHP to be well designed and with a very active community
with hundreds of active committers. Soon after I got started, I was
shocked to find people I didn't know making changes to "my" code.
By contrast, Tomcat's code base was as screwed up as Craig says it was. I
was running on JDK 1.1.8 at the time on WinNT, and the README actually said
that if you were running this combination and wanted to serve static files,
upgrade. And the community was as disfunctional as Costin implied. I was
initially greeted with "hey, you're from IBM, we don't want your kind
around here".
As far as what's my platform: I prefer a minimum of central control. I
want to continue to create an environment where those that want to
contribute are given the maximum opportunity to do so. I prefer to cross
fertilize and inform rather than mandate. And I'm patient. And VERY
persistent.
Some even say I have a sense of humor... ;-)
Scott Sanders (accepted)
Who I am: I am a developer with 10 years of experience. I got my first
taste of Open Source Software with JServ 0.9, and helped (albeit very
little) with Jserv as a lurker/non-committer. I use/have used Apache
products everyday in my development of various projects. My current focus
is on building the Commons community to have a large library of reusable
components for my own development work. I am also working on a proposal
for the re-birth of Alexandria, and have some thoughts on how to make
James an 'Exchange Killer'. I am not being paid to work at jakarta, and I
am happy to help build the community.
What I want to accomplish: Jon, Sam, and Stefano are my open source
'idols'. I respect what each of them have done for Jakarta and Apache as
a whole. I would like to follow in the gigantic footsteps of Sam in
helping to increase inter-project communication and cooperation. This can
only help to increase the Apache community in general, and the Jakarta
community specifically. I would also like to continue Sam's work in the
cooperation with the xml.apache.org community. Part of the community
building is having some way of finding code within Apache.
I look forward to helping improve the jakarta community,
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