| Re: [jakarta.ee-spec.committee] Question about access permissions and committee membership |
| Ed, good questions re. governance. The members were originally published to the mailing list, but we have been remiss in publishing on the website. As Bill noted, we’re working on it and hopefully can get it done soon. Re. the role of an alternate - the role is not formally specified in the charter or bylaws, but instead is a convention we use in working groups (and at the Board level) that enables better continuity for committees. The convention has been that enabling the alternate (or alternates) to be on the mailing lists and attend calls "as an observer" is useful, since a Strategic member representative may have a fellow employee represent them as an alternate at any committee meeting, and to vote on their behalf. An alternate could also vote on behalf of the representative for an electronic vote, but the alternate would need to make it clear they are voting on behalf of their representative/company. In the specific case of commit access, my contention would be that alternates do not get commit access. It is harder to administer, and more difficult to track an action to a specific representative. Also, it would seem that another committee member could perform any commits required. Certainly from a record keeping point of view, having only committers have write access is much simpler as we can equate write access to committee membership. As a reminder, our records show following individuals are currently Spec committee members. Kenji Kazumura - Fujitsu, Michael DeNicola - alternate Dan Bandera - IBM, Kevin Sutter - alternate Bill Shannon - Oracle, Ed Bratt - alternate Steve Millidge - Payara, Arjan Tijms - alternate Scott Stark - Red Hat, Mark Little - alternate David Blevins - Tomitribe, Richard Monson-Haefel - alternate Ivar Grimstad - PMC Representative Alex Theedom - London Java Community Elected Participant Representative Werner Keil - Elected Committer Representative Paul Buck - Eclipse Foundation (serves as interim chair, but is not a committee member) Hope this helps. Paul Paul White VP, Member Services | Eclipse Foundation, Inc. +1.613.852.4303 (mobile)
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