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I want to point out (probably obvious, but worth mentioning) that the
whole dev.globus "democratic" process is meant to enable negotiation of
different perspectives and needs from different contributing groups.<br>
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Clearly in the case of U.Chicago people, the ultimate decision on what
is done is not determined democratically--it is determined via a
consensus-based process, to a large extent, but ultimately decided by
Mike based on project funding obligations.<br>
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Ian.<br>
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Ben Clifford wrote:
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On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Michael Wilde wrote:
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<pre wrap="">If "chair" is someone who maintains the infrastructure it should be a
developer.
If its someone that makes management decisions and speaks for the project, it
should be me.
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It seems to me to be neither of those. Specifically there are no
requirements that the chair maintain infrastructure and an explicit
prohibition on the chair making enhanced-authority decisions (wrt any
other committer).
However, Jen's correspondence seems to suggest that IMP regards the chair
as having some other rights and obligations. I don't believe these are
publicly documented though.
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Each Globus project is required to name a project Chair via some
process defined by the project's Committers. A project Chair has no
enhanced authority, but has certain responsibilities relative to the
function of the Globus Alliance. Specifically:
* The Chair should generate, on or before March 31st, June 30th, September
30th, and December 31st of each year, reports concerning the activities of
the project during the past quarter, its current status, and future plans.
*The Chair is responsible for forwarding to the Globus infrastructure
group requests to add or delete Committers for the project.
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