This is my mistake, it certainly wasn't on purpose. If you
object
Lawrence being a committer please speak up.
Cezar
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cliff Schmidt [mailto:cliffschmidt gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 7:51 PM
> To: devxmlbeans.apache.org
> Subject: Public Votes and [RESULTS] Lawrence Jones as
XMLBeans
committer
>
> OK -- This is really late/lame, but I'm just now
noticing (while
> preparing the xmlbeans quarterly report to the board)
that a vote for
> Lawrence Jones as an xmlbeans committer went to the
private pmc list
> back at the end of January, but never to this dev list.
In fact,
> there was never even a message sent to any public list
with the
> results of the vote, which is really not the way we
should be doing
> things. As the chair of the pmc, I should have been
paying more
> attention to which mailing list these emails were sent
to, but I want
> to make sure that this issue is fixed (even if nearly
two months late)
> and that everyone understands how this should work.
>
> So, first the belated news about Lawrence Jones:
>
> Lawrence was nominated at the end of January to be an
xmlbeans
> committer. All six of the votes cast were +1s.
Congratulations to
> Lawrence! He was voted in as a committer based on
months of
> consistent contributions, including a lot of work on
the 2.1 release,
> and a constant presence responding to users on the
mailing lists.
>
> ----
>
> Now for the way that votes for committers and pmc
members should work:
>
> There is very little that should ever need to be done
on a private
> list, such as the pmc list. The business of the pmc
should generally
> be conducted on the public dev list. All technical
decisions *must*
> be made on public lists. Sensitive legal issues or
security issues
> are the kinds of things that we might need to keep
private.
>
> However, in order to avoid publicly humiliating someone
by having
> their committer vote vetoed by someone who could have
indicated
> his/her concern privately, the xmlbeans project (and
several other asf
> projects) have traditionally sent a private notice to
the pmc list
> indicating an intention to nominate and call a vote.
Since all
> binding votes are cast by pmc members, this allows any
known negative
> issues that could warrant a veto to be addressed
privately.
>
> If there are no unresolved, critical concerns, the
nomination and vote
> should be proposed on the dev list. This public vote
accomplishes at
> least three things:
>
> 1. it allows the xmlbeans developer community to be
aware of changes
> in the people responsible for the code;
> 2. it informs/reminds the xmlbeans developer community
how such
> processes work; and,
> 3. it gives anyone on the dev list a chance to voice
positive or
> negative comments about the person or the process.
>
> Before any of this public phase happens, we know that
no one with a
> binding vote (pmc members) expects to vote negatively;
however, those
> with a binding vote could still be influenced by the
non-binding
> feedback from the broader community during the voting
period.
>
> After the typical 72-hour voting period, the results
are announced on
> the dev list and the infrastructure requirements are
taken care of.
>
> ----
>
> So, with Lawrence's nomination, the private notice of
intention to
> nominate was sent to the pmc; the problem was that,
after there were
> no objections, the rest of the process did not happen
publicly.
> Again, as the chair, I should have caught this at the
time; but, I
> want to make sure it is addressed now.
>
> Thanks for reading this far.
>
> Cliff
>
>
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