On 2/18/2006 10:24 AM, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
>Alan D. Cabrera wrote:
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>>Noel J. Bergman wrote:
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>>>[X] is on the Incubator PMC, so he's on the Ode PPMC, and has
>>>chosen to actively participate. ASF Members are automatically
>>>eligible for he PMC, others [can be] elected.
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>>Does this also specifically also apply to the role of Mentor?
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>The role of Mentor is an Incubator specific notion, having no existence in
>the ASF legal structure. Members, Officers and PMC Members, on the other
>hand, do.
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>The Incubator PMC needs to maintain legal oversight over all of its
>constituent projects, and as the Incubator grows, it becomes vital that we
>be able to scale that oversight. This is, in part, why I have been pushing
>to have at least three Mentors per project. Sure, the entire PMC has a
>binding over over the entire Incubator, but no one can watch every project.
>So we need the Mentors to be active in the community. Not only are they
>there to provide guidance, but to provide oversight. Only PMC members have
>binding votes, as per the ASF bylaws, so Mentors need to be on the PMC in
>order to have that binding vote.
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>So really. a Mentor is a PMC member who is choosing to be active and help in
>guiding the community.
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Thanks for the clarification. Should I update
http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Roles_and_Responsibilities.html
to reflect this change?
Regards,
Alan
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