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Thank you for your work on RFCs 0, 7, 8 and the Policies. Just some small remarks:

  • Ad submission of proposals: Does this extend to RFCs? I ask because the RFC Policies state anyone who has write access to the SVN (i.e. committers) can submit an RFC, whereas RFC 0 states that any interested person (including non-committers) can submit a proposal.
  • Ad anouncements: RFC 0 states that the author of a proposal shall anounce the new status of a proposal that has been voted on. In the original version of the RFC Policies the Chairman (i.e. the PSC Chair) should be responsible for announcing status changes. I think this is more practical since it is the PSC and its Chair who master the voting process.
  • Ad voting requirements: In this early stage of EOxServer development, backwards incompatible changes, addition of new features and thus addition of substantial amounts of code and even changes to inter-subsystem APIs will be quite frequent. We should find a way to proceed here without too much formal overhead as long as there are no production installations of EOxServer, e.g. by voting only on a development road map, but not on every single issue that arises during development.

Author: Stephan Krause | Created: 2011-05-04 15:42

One last question/suggestion: should not we create a web page for recording proposals and decisions (which are not related to RFCs - those are recorded in the respective RFC)?

Author: Stephan Krause | Created: 2011-05-04 15:48

Thanks for the comments. Here's a short response to the four points:

  • Right, proposals can be submitted on the dev mailing list by any interested person but obviously only committers can officially add a RFC to the repository.
  • I'd leave it to the author of a RFC to follow-up its voting, adoption, implementation, etc. Naturally I'd think the author has the strongest interest.
  • I completely agree and hope that the mailing lists are working soon.
  • Please go ahead and create a wiki page for this but anyway there's the archive of the mailing list for documentation.

Author: Stephan Meißl | Created: 2011-05-04 18:00

Given that "There is no fixed number of members for the PSC", then why would we seek nominations for a replacement if a member steps down or becomes inactive for two months? The number of PSC members would then simply decrease, no?

Author: Milan Novacek | Created: 2011-05-13 11:59:42

Milan, you're right. I propose to change to: "If a member is not active (e.g. no voting, no IRC, or email participation) for a period of two months then the committee reserves the right to vote to cease membership.".

Author: Stephan Meißl | Created: 2011-05-13 16:36

Stephan, your proposed wording is fine with me.

Author: Milan Novacek | Created: 2011-05-13 17:49:52