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

[Ian Foster]

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.

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.

Ian.



Ben Clifford wrote:
> 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.
>
> ---
> 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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