Wayne, you describe how the EF did it *in the past*. As a new EF member I try to push the EF into a more open future. AFAIK the EF never had such a big addition of projects, committers and members so far and there has to be a discussion whether the *previously* used archetype is still suitable in these ages, for EE4J and the EF's future in general. It must be allowed to "refurbish" the EF a bit, to turn away from the top-down vendors-only club to a bottom-up committer-controlled democratic entity. Whether this happens or not will the members decide. So this is not about me not understanding what the EF is like, but it is about the EF understanding that the new members having a different vision about the EF being like in future. -Markus From: ee4j-pmc-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ee4j-pmc-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wayne Beaton Sent: Freitag, 18. Mai 2018 22:41 To: EE4J PMC Discussions Subject: Re: [ee4j-pmc] PMC Minutes I value your experience and your opinions, Markus. However, while your experience working with various open source projects is relevant, it is not definitive. The Mozilla folks recently published a document that describes ten archetypes. I think that what you're describing is the "Wide Open" archetype. We are probably closer to the "Multi-Vendor Infrastructure" model. We consciously balance the needs of contributors, committers, consumers, and members. The key point is that there is more than one way to run an open source project. I'm describing how we do it. On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 2:13 PM, Markus KARG <markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Then you read it wrong. ;-) I do not want anarchy. I want democracy. The first is having no common government. The second is electing the government by the committers. -Markus Markus, Some of your points make sense to me, but not the first couple... Each EE4J subproject can not determine their own direction, irrespective of the platform. We can not allow the 40 or so subprojects to do their "own thing" without some regard to the overall direction of Jakarta EE and EE4J. That would be a disaster and basically end anything even semi-related to Java EE. We can not let anarchy rule. Maybe this isn't what you were saying, but that's how I read it...
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From: "Markus KARG" <markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "'EE4J PMC Discussions'" <ee4j-pmc@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 05/17/2018 10:57 AM Subject: Re: [ee4j-pmc] PMC Minutes Sent by: ee4j-pmc-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
David, I need to disagree with virtually all you told me so far. Starting with "Crocodile tastes like Chicken." ;-) Joking aside, I simply have a different vision how to set up EE4J's future, and I do not see which legal or scale issues stop us from the following: - There is no such thing like "the future direction of EE4J" as all EE4J subprojects are independent entities. - Whether or not EE4J subprojects like to participate in a common policy is up to their committers. - If the EE4J subproject committers like to define a common policy, it is up to them to set up a common discussion platform with the help of the EF and the PMC. - Send an email to all JCP EGs (the addresses are public) and ask the EG members to contribute to EE4J projects. No need to ask the JCP for addresses, so no break of GDPR. - Send an email to all JCP EGs (the addresses are public) and ask the EG members to become Jakarta WG members. No need to ask the JCP for addresses, so no break of GDPR. - Send an email to all EE4J project mailing lists and ask the committers whatever you wanted to ask the current project leads. - Send an email to all EE4J project mailing lists and ask the committers to vote for new committers immediately to get frequent contributors upgraded ASAP. - Send an email to all EE4J project mailing lists and ask the committers to vote for new project leads, replacing the initial (non-elected) ones. - Prune all EE4J projects from inactive committers and non-elected project leads. - Do not come up with anything before asked by a committer. I do not see a real need to discuss a lot of issues the PMC actually discusses. Be more relaxed. EE4J will be a success once more committers get active, they will come up with ideas, and the PMC can then simply implement those ideas instead of upfront trying to set a direction that might be totally wrong. The committers will one day have an idea how to replace the JCP EGs and until then simply the committers do their work: What they come up with IS the specification. That way you will get a much more democratic basis in EE4J. The priority of getting EE4J set up democratic is of higher priority than simply having some progress in an arbitrary direction. -Markus From: ee4j-pmc-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ee4j-pmc-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Blevins Sent: Mittwoch, 16. Mai 2018 00:31 To: EE4J PMC Discussions Subject: Re: [ee4j-pmc] PMC Minutes On May 15, 2018, at 2:02 PM, Markus KARG <markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I need to say that asking only the project leads will not really bear a bottom-up result The intent is bottom up, truly. Or as best as we can get with our non-existent specification process, incomplete projects, no clear definition of what replaces an Expert Group or how it should work, and still no legal rights to the javax namespace and all the complications that brings. That "best" would be pretty low quality and non-permanent at this point in time, but there is a strong desire to find some way to get people engaged despite the very obvious obstacles. The intent is to take a baby steps forward because if we don't the result will be that everything will be waiting on everything. I.e. the goal is anything but a deadlock, which is what we have. It isn't clear how to untangle all of this so any correspondence should be read with the perspective all steps are temporary and we're pulling at strings in a knot. The general desire: - Start getting some technical direction - Have that come from the projects - Specification Committee would just dictate process (JCP-like) not technical direction Some of the obstacles: - We can't legally take contributions yet, because we don't legally own javax.* in any form nor do we have patent rights to any of the specifications - We already know the standard Eclipse Contributor Agreement doesn't provide enough rights to support a standards process, so any ideas we discuss now in the projects could be legally questionable in the future. - We've only had two Specification Committee meetings (2 hours total) and are gaining consensus that group shouldn't be setting technical direction and it should come from whatever replaces Expert Groups. More time needed for that to get more firm and it's clear as you say the groups we do have are barely enough to seed the future "Expert Group" regardless. - There've been over 250 participants in the various EE-related Expert Groups in the last 18 years, which presents primarily a scale issue and more recently a legal issue. The scale issue is Eclipse has never onboarded so many at once and is already overwhelmed. The second is the JCP/Oracle has no legal rights to give the contact information for 250 people to Eclipse given the new GDPR laws. The results make things hard. This email is as imperfect as the situation, so full of holes and I haven't listed everyone's thoughts on how to overcome the obstacles. There are many, but instead I'll just encourage people here to write some. It definitely won't hurt. On the technical direction, ideally that's something that can be done in the coming weeks (not days) and to the best we can reflect people's thoughts. Ideally we can be comfortable with the unclear rules/lines and use this as an exercise to start inching towards some clear rules/lines. I think at minimum something like JSR description is what we need. If someone wants to grab that and take a stab at filtering out the parts that wouldn't apply or filing in anything new we might want to ask of future specifications, that would be very helpful. Goal is to have a basic template and hand it to all the spec projects and say "fill this in to the best of your ability." I should probably start a new thread, but ideally we'd have the template ideas by next Tuesday. Not spend too long on what it should be, then give a couple weeks to the projects to fill it in. That won't be perfect, but I suspect it would be a considerable help in the efforts to move the specification process definition forward. -David _______________________________________________ ee4j-pmc mailing list ee4j-pmc@xxxxxxxxxxx To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe from this list, visit https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/ee4j-pmc
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