Re: [soa-iwg] ECF and SOA initiative

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Donald,

Donald Smith wrote:
> <stuff deleted>
>
> This actually is a requirement of the Eclipse Industry Work Group process,
> and not a special rule of the SOA IWG.  It is to ensure adequate resources
> are available to help run the IWG's.  The full details of the IWG process
> can be found here:
>
> http://www.eclipse.org/org/industry-workgroups/industry_wg_process.php
>   

Thanks Donald.  I still happen to think that limiting steering group 
membership in this manner is unnecessarily hostile to some members (e.g. 
committer members).

I also understand the 'sales appeal' of membership requirements as per 
Oisin's note...but thinking about this and other industry working group 
success alone, I don't happen to think it's a good idea (i.e. why 
exclude people from the membership who may be *better* able to provide 
good input/work/ideas/code, just because they don't meet the membership 
class requirements). 

In any event, this obviously isn't the SOA working group specific (i.e. 
the membership requirements are for all working groups as per the 
process doc), so it's a larger discussion (that unfortunately I and 
other committers probably won't be privy to...BTW).

Scott