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WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of an open-source software platform supporting secure component publication, discovery, composition, deployment, and management, for distribution at no charge to the public. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Metro PMC", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the "Apache Metro PMC" be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of a software platform supporting component publication, discovery, composition, deployment, and management, based on software licensed to the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Metro" be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache Metro PMC, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Metro PMC; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache Metro PMC: Timothy Bennett (tbennett@apache.org) J Aaron Farr (farr@apache.org) Cameron Fieber (cfieber@apache.org) Niclas Hedhman (niclas@apache.org) Alex Karasulu (akarasulu@apache.org) Stephen McConnell (mcconnell@apache.org) Andreas Oberhack (oberhack@apache.org) NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Niclas Hedhman be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Metro, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Metro PMC be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Apache Metro community. This proposed resolution resulted in an extended discussion regarding Metro, Avalon and Excaliber. The general agreement was that creating a TLP in an effort to "force" the projects and committers to behave was unwise and un-deserved. Forcing Metro into Incubation was discussed, but no decision was made on that topic. Also discussed was the presense of a certain individual on the proposed PMC, and the fragmenting and unhealthy environment he tends to bring to projects. It was unanimously agreed that the Metro Project proposal would be rejected. Greg was to send an Email to the Avalon PMC (including any proposed Metro PMC members) indicating the board's very strong direction that, regarding Metro, that including Stephen McConnell on any proposed PMC would cause serious reservations within the board. To the Avalon PMC, the email would describe the board's serious concern that Avalon itself is being ignored, despite the fact that other ASF projects (eg: Cocoon and James) are dependent on it; Avalon needs to perform it's duties or find another ASF project (eg: Excalibur) to "take over", or some other viable solution. Forking off Metro and leaving Avalon in its present state is not a solution. It was also unanimously agreed that Greg's letter would be him speaking *as* the board and would, in the strongest terms, clearly express the board's growing dissatisfaction with near-constant issues with Avalon.
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of an open-source software platform supporting secure component publication, discovery, composition, deployment, and management, for distribution at no charge to the public. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Metro PMC", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the "Apache Metro PMC" be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of a software platform supporting component publication, discovery, composition, deployment, and management, based on software licensed to the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Metro" be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache Metro PMC, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Metro PMC; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache Metro PMC: Timothy Bennett tbennett@apache.org J Aaron Farr farr@apache.org Cameron Fieber cfieber@apache.org Niclas Hedhman niclas@apache.org Alex Karasulu akarasulu@apache.org Stephen McConnell mcconnell@apache.org Andreas Oberhack oberhack@apache.org NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Niclas Hedhman be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Metro, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Metro PMC be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Apache Metro community. Special Order 5 B, Establishment of Apache Metro Project, was tabled.