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<tr><td bgcolor="#294563"><font color="#ffffff"><a name="Apache Ant Project Bylaws"><strong>Apache Ant Project Bylaws</strong></a></font></td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor="#294563"><font color="#ffffff"><a name="Apache Ant Project Bylaws"><strong>Apache Ant Project Bylaws</strong></a></font></td></tr>
</table> </table>
<p> <p>
This document defines the bylaws under which the Apache Ant project operates.
It defines the the roles and responsibilities of the project, who may vote,
how conflicts are resolved, etc.
</p>
This document defines the bylaws under which the Apache Ant project
operates. It defines the the roles and responsibilities of the
project, who may vote, how voting works, how conflicts are resolved,
etc.
</p>
<p> <p>
Ant is typical of Apache projects in that it operates under a set of principles,
known as the Apache Way. If you are new to Apache, please refer to the
<a href="http://incubator.apache.org">Incubator project</a> for more information on
how Apache projects operate.
</p>
Ant is a project of the
<a href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/">Apache Software
Foundation</a>. The foundation holds the copyright on Apache
code including the code in the Ant codebase. The
<a href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/faq.html">foundation FAQ</a>
explains the operation and background of the foundation.
</p>
<p>
Ant is typical of Apache projects in that it operates under a set of
principles, known collectively as the "Apache Way". If you are
new to Apache, please refer to the
<a href="http://incubator.apache.org">Incubator project</a>
for more information on how Apache projects operate. <b>Note:</b> the
incubator project has only been recently set up and does not yet explain
the Apache Way in great detail.
</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="#Roles and Responsibilities">Roles and Responsibilities</a></li>
<li><a href="#Decision Making">How decisions are made</a></li>
</ul>
<br/> <br/>
<table class="nowrap" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <table class="nowrap" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
<tr><td bgcolor="#294563"><font color="#ffffff"><a name="Roles and Responsibilities"><strong>Roles and Responsibilities</strong></a></font></td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor="#294563"><font color="#ffffff"><a name="Roles and Responsibilities"><strong>Roles and Responsibilities</strong></a></font></td></tr>
</table> </table>
<br/>
<p>
Apache projects define a set of roles with associated rights and
responsibilities. These roles govern what tasks an individual may perform
within the project. The roles are defined in the the following sections
</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="#Users">Users</a></li>
<li><a href="#Developers">Developers</a></li>
<li><a href="#Committers">Committers</a></li>
<li><a href="#Project Management Committee">
Project Management Committee (PMC)</a>
</li>
</ul>
<br/>
<a name="Users"></a>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
<tr><td bgcolor="#4C6C8F">
<font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
<strong>Users</strong>
</font>
</td></tr>
</table>
<p>
The most important participants in the project are people who use our
software. The majority of our developers start out as users and guide
their development efforts from the user's perspective.
</p>
<p>
Users contribute to the Apache projects by providing feedback to
developers in the the form of bug reports and feature suggestions. As
well, users participate in the Apache community by helping other users
on mailing lists and user support forums.
</p>
<br/>
<a name="Developers"></a>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
<tr><td bgcolor="#4C6C8F">
<font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
<strong>Developers</strong>
</font>
</td></tr>
</table>
<p>
All of the volunteers who are contributing time, code, documentation,
or resources to the Ant Project. A developer that makes sustained,
welcome contributions to the project may be invited to become a
Committer, though the exact timing of such invitations depends on many
factors.
</p>
<br/>
<a name="Committers"></a>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
<tr><td bgcolor="#4C6C8F">
<font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
<strong>Committers</strong>
</font>
</td></tr>
</table>
<p>
The project's Committers are responsible for the project's technical
management. All committers have write access to the project's source
repositories. Committers may cast binding votes on any technical
discussion regarding the project.
</p>
<p>
Committer access is by invitation only and must be approved by lazy
consensus of the active PMC members. A Committer is considered emeritus
by their own declaration or by not contributing in any form to the
project for over four months. An emeritus committer may request
reinstatement of commit access fromt he PMC. Such reinstatement is
subject to lazy consensus of active PMC members. Commit access can be
revoked by a unanimous vote of all the active PMC members (except the
committer in question if they are also a PMC member).
</p>
<p>
All Apache committers are required to have a signed Contributor License
Agreement (CLA) on file with the Apache Software Foundation. There is a
<a href="http://www.apache.org/dev/committers.html">Committer FAQ</a>
which provides more details on the requirements for Committers
</p>
<p>
A committer who makes a sustained contibution to the project may be
invited to become a member of the PMC.
</p>
<br/>
<a name="Project Management Committee"></a> <a name="Project Management Committee"></a>
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</table> </table>
<p> <p>
The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Ant was created by a resolution of the
board of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF)on 18th November 2002. The PMC is responsible
to the board and the ASF for the management and oversight of the Apache Ant codebase.
The responsibilites of the PMC include
The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Ant was created by a
<a href="mission.html">resolution</a> of the board of the Apache
Software Foundation on 18<sup>th</sup> November 2002. The PMC is
responsible to the board and the ASF for the management and oversight
of the Apache Ant codebase. The responsibilites of the PMC include
</p> </p>
<ul> <ul>
<li>Deciding what is distributed as products of the Apache Ant project. In particular
all releases must be approved by the PMC
<li>Deciding what is distributed as products of the Apache Ant project.
In particular all releases must be approved by the PMC
</li> </li>
<li>Maintaining the project's shared resources, including the codebase repository,
mailing lists, websites.
<li>Maintaining the project's shared resources, including the codebase
repository, mailing lists, websites.
</li> </li>
<li>Speaking on behalf of the project. <li>Speaking on behalf of the project.
</li> </li>
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</li> </li>
</ul> </ul>
<p> <p>
Membership of the PMC is by invitation only and must be approved by a consensus of active PMC members.
A PMC member is considered inactive by their own declaration or by not contributing in any form to the
project for over six months. An inactive member can become active again by reversing whichever condition
made them inactive (i.e., by reversing their earlier declaration or by once again contributing toward the
project's work). Membership can be revoked by an unanimous vote of all the active PMC members other
than the member in question.
Membership of the PMC is by invitation only and must be approved by a
lazy consensus of active PMC members. A PMC member is considered
"emeritus" by their own declaration or by not contributing in
any form to the project for over four months. An emeritus member may
request reinstatement to the PMC. Such reinstatement is subject to lazy
consensus of the active PMC members. Membership of the PMC can be
revoked by an unanimous vote of all the active PMC members other than
the member in question.
</p> </p>
<p> <p>
The chair of the PMC is appointed by the ASF board. The chair is an office holder of the Apache
Software Foundation (Vice President, Apache Ant) and has primary responsibility to the board for the
management of the projects within the scope of the Ant PMC. The chair reports to the board quarterly
on developments within the Ant project. The PMC may consider the position of PMC chair annually
and if supported by 3/4 Majority may recommend a new chair to the board. Ultimately, however, it is
the board's responsibility who to appoint as the PMC chair.
The chair of the PMC is appointed by the ASF board. The chair is an
office holder of the Apache Software Foundation (Vice President,
Apache Ant) and has primary responsibility to the board for the
management of the projects within the scope of the Ant PMC. The chair
reports to the board quarterly on developments within the Ant project.
The PMC may consider the position of PMC chair annually and if
supported by 3/4 Majority may recommend a new chair to the board.
Ultimately, however, it is the board's responsibility who to appoint as
the PMC chair.
</p> </p>
<br/>
<a name="Committers"></a>
<br/>
<table class="nowrap" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
<tr><td bgcolor="#294563"><font color="#ffffff"><a name="Decision Making"><strong>Decision Making</strong></a></font></td></tr>
</table>
<p>
Within the Ant project, different types of decisions require different
forms of approval. For example, the
<a href="#Roles and Responsibilities">previous section</a> describes
several decisions which require "lazy consensus" approval. This
section defines how voting is performed, the types of approvals, and which
types of decision require which type of approval.
</p>
<br/>
<a name="Voting"></a>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
<tr><td bgcolor="#4C6C8F"> <tr><td bgcolor="#4C6C8F">
<font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
<strong>Committers</strong>
<strong>Voting </strong>
</font> </font>
</td></tr> </td></tr>
</table> </table>
<p> <p>
The project's Committers are responsible for the project's technical management. All committers have
write access to the project's source repository. Committers may cast binding votes on any technical
discussion regarding the project.
</p>
<p>
Membership as a Committer is by invitation only and must be approved by consensus of the active
PMC members. A Committer is considered inactive by their own declaration or by not contributing
in any form to the project for over six months. An inactive committer can become active again
by reversing whichever condition made them inactive (i.e., by reversing their earlier declaration
or by once again contributing toward the project's work). Commit access can be revoked by a
unanimous vote of all the active PMC members (except the member in question if they are a PMC member).
Decisions regarding the project are made by votes on the primary project
development mailing list (ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org). Where necessary,
PMC voting may take place on the private Ant PMC mailing list.
Votes are indicated by subject line starting with [VOTE]. Votes
may contain multiple items for approval and these should be clearly
separated. Voting is carried out by replying to the vote mail. Voting
may take four flavours
</p> </p>
<table class="ForrestTable" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4">
<tr>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
<strong>+1</strong>
</td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
"Yes," "Agree," or "the action should be
performed." In general, this vote also indicates a willingness
on the behalf of the voter in "making it happen"
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
<strong>+0</strong>
</td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
This vote indicates a willingness for the action under
consideration to go ahead. The voter, however will not be able
to help.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
<strong>-0</strong>
</td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
This vote indicates that the voter does not, in general, agree with
the proposed action but is not concerned enough to prevent the
action going ahead.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
<strong>-1</strong>
</td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
This is a negative vote. On issues where consensus is required,
this vote counts as a <strong>veto</strong>. All vetos must
contain an explanation of why the veto is appropriate. Vetos with
no explanation are void.
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p> <p>
All Apache committers are required to have a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA) on file
with the Apache Software Foundation.
All participants in the Ant project are encouraged to show their
agreement with or against a particular action by voting. For technical
decisions, only the votes of active committers are binding. Non binding
votes are still useful for Committers to understand the perception of an
action in the wider Ant community. For PMC decisions, only the votes of
PMC members are binding.
</p> </p>
<p> <p>
A committer who makes a sustained contibution to the project will usually be invited to become a member of
the PMC.
Voting can also be applied to changes made to the Ant codebase. These
typically take the form of a veto (-1) in reply to the commit message
sent when the commit is made.
</p> </p>
<br/> <br/>
<a name="Developers"></a>
<a name="Approval s"></a>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
<tr><td bgcolor="#4C6C8F"> <tr><td bgcolor="#4C6C8F">
<font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
<strong>Developers</strong>
<strong>Approval s</strong>
</font> </font>
</td></tr> </td></tr>
</table> </table>
<p> <p>
All of the volunteers who are contributing time, code, documentation, or resources to the
Ant Project. A developer that makes sustained, welcome contributions to the project for
over six months is usually invited to become a Committer, though the exact timing of
such invitations depends on many factors.
These are the types of approvals that can be sought. Different actions
require different types of approvals
</p> </p>
<table class="ForrestTable" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4">
<tr>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
<strong>Consensus</strong>
</td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
For this to pass, all voters with binding votes must vote and there
can be no binding vetos (-1). Consensus votes are rarely required
due to the impracticality of getting all eligible voters to cast a
vote.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
<strong>Lazy Consensus</strong>
</td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
Lazy consensus requires 3 binding +1 votes and no binding vetos.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
<strong>Lazy Majority</strong>
</td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
A lazy majority vote requires 3 binding +1 votes and more binding +1
votes that -1 votes.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
<strong>Lazy Approval</strong>
</td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
An action with lazy approval is implicitly allowed unless a -1 vote
is received, at which time, depending on the type of action, either
Lazy Majority or Lazy consensus approval must be obtained.
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br/> <br/>
<a name="Users"></a>
<a name="Veto s"></a>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
<tr><td bgcolor="#4C6C8F"> <tr><td bgcolor="#4C6C8F">
<font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
<strong>Users</strong>
<strong>Veto s</strong>
</font> </font>
</td></tr> </td></tr>
</table> </table>
<p> <p>
The most important participants in the project are people who use our software. The majority of our
developers start out as users and guide their development efforts from the user's perspective.
A valid, binding veto cannot be overruled. If a veto is cast, it must be
accompanied by a valid reason explaining the reasons for the veto. The
validity of a veto, if challeneged, can be confirmed by anyone who has
a binding vote. This does not necessarily signify agreement with the
veto - merely that the veto is valid. If you disagree with a veto, you
must lobby the person casting the veto to withdraw their veto. If a veto
is not withdrawn, the action that has been vetoed bust be reversed in a
timely manner.
</p> </p>
<p>
Users contribute to the Apache projects by providing feedback to developers in the the form of
bug reports and feature suggestions. As well, users participate in the Apache community by
helping other users on mailing lists and user support forums.
<br/>
<a name="Actions"></a>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
<tr><td bgcolor="#4C6C8F">
<font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
<strong>Actions</strong>
</font>
</td></tr>
</table>
<p>
This section describes the various actions which are undertaken within
the project, the correspnding approval required for that action and
those who have binding votes over the action.
</p> </p>
<table class="ForrestTable" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4">
<tr>
<th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
Action
</th>
<th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
Description
</th>
<th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
Approval
</th>
<th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
Binding Votes
</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
<strong>Codebase Change</strong>
</td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
A change made to the main codebase of the project and committed
by a committer. This includes source code, documentation, website
content, etc.
</td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
Lazy Approval and then Lazy consensus.
</td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
Active committers.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
<strong>Release Plan</strong>
</td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
Defines the timetable and actions for a release. The plan also
nominates a Release Manager.
</td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
Lazy Majority
</td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
Active committers
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
<strong>Product Release</strong>
</td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
When a release of one of the project's products is ready, a vote is
required to accept the release as an official release of the
Project.
</td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
Lazy Majority
</td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
Active PMC members
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
<strong>New Committer</strong>
</td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
When a new committer is proposed for the project
</td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
Lazy consensus
</td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
Active PMC members
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
<strong>New PMC Member</strong>
</td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
When a committer is proposed for the PMC
</td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
Lazy consensus
</td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
Active PMC members
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div> </div>
Conor MacNeill