Board reporting change

[Patricia Shanahan <pa...@acm.org>]

August is a board report month for River. There will be slight change in 
procedure.

The board is concerned about projects whose reports do not change much 
from month-to-month. That can mean a healthy project that is just 
progressing slowly, but has a functional PMC etc. I believe that is the 
case for River. It can also mean a chair who just resubmits the same 
report each month without thinking about it. In the latter case the 
project could be effectively dead, without a functioning PMC, or have 
other major problems that the board has not been told about.

This cycle, when I think I have the final report ready to submit, I am 
going to ask for votes from PMC members. We need explicit sign-off from 
at least three PMC members, enough to e.g. approve a release. That way, 
the board will know we have a PMC that is awake and following the 
mailing lists.

Patricia