[Swift-devel] PROPOSAL: Mike to be dev.globus project chair

[Michael Wilde]

dev.globus is still waiting to hear from us who will be chair.

I propose that I remain project chair and that we signify agreement (or 
not) by a vote, which will follow this email.

We did not vote on chair (or anything else) when we initially joined 
dev.globus. I propose we do so now.

dev.globus defines the chair role as:

"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."


- Mike



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Swift-devel] [Fwd: Re: [incubator-committers] Re: swift 
project in hibernation]
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 17:18:53 +0000 (GMT)
From: Ben Clifford <benc at hawaga.org.uk>
To: Michael Wilde <wilde at mcs.anl.gov>
CC: swift-devel <swift-devel at ci.uchicago.edu>
References: <484807C1.2060902 at mcs.anl.gov>



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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