[Swift-devel] [Fwd: Re: [incubator-committers] Re: swift project in hibernation]

[Ben Clifford]

On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Michael Wilde wrote:

> 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.

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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