Re: [technology-pmc] Technology Project Charter

[Wayne Beaton <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Much of the charter is boilerplate.

I'm not sure if we can refer to the standard charter template [1], or if
we have to copy it. I'm open to suggestions.

Wayne

[1]
http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/Eclipse_Standard_TopLevel_Charter_v1.0.php

On 04/08/2011 03:02 PM, Gunnar Wagenknecht wrote:
> Am 08.04.2011 20:17, schrieb Wayne Beaton:
>> It's probably time to update the charter.
> Got time, eh? It's pretty outdated. We should throw it into a wiki page
> and work from there to update it.
>
> IMHO it contains a lot of descriptive text that feels like boilerplate.
> It makes the page rather large which might distract people from reading
> it. I think it should be shorter.
>
> For example, the section about PMC should be "common sense", i.e.
> already written/described in a global place that we should just link to.
> The only difference is that we act more like mentors than other PMCs.
> For example, we don't lay out release plans or road maps or make feature
> decisions. We help the projects do them.
>
> Similar with the section "Infrastructure". That should be common to all
> projects and something the AC is heavily involved in. Defining our own
> seems wrong to me.
>
> -Gunnar
>