Important: MacPorts PortMgr Changes

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

On Oct 8, 2008, at 3:10 AM, C. Florian Ebeling wrote:

>> In short, if we agree to the plan Markus, Juan and James
>> proposed and open up the floor for nominations for PortMgr
>> membership, I would be honored to accept your nomination. :-)
>
> Ok, then I hereby officially nominate you :) I wanted to do that
> anyway.
>
> Also I would like to nominate the following members
> (alphabetically ordered):
> - Bryan Blackburn
> - Rainer Mueller
> - Joshua Root
>
> Do the nominees accept the nomination? :)
>
> All this provided that the suggested plan is accepted.
> I don't know how we can officially establish acceptance
> for such a plan, but I think there was largely consent,
> so we should assume it is accepted. Am I wrong?
>
> By the way, who was meant to be able to vote eventually?
> All users or mailing list participants, or just maintainers/
> members?
>
> Florian
>


	I would like to thank everyone who has participated in this very  
important thread for the comments they put forth and for, at least up  
until now, accepting and endorsing our proposed plan. Unless we  
experience any roadblocks from this point onward, I guess it's safe to  
say that Markus, James and I can now sit down to sort out the  
implementation details ASAP for sooner than later implementation.

	In any case, and as a personal draft note based on previous  
experience, I think the likelihood is that only active committers will  
be allowed to vote, for some definition of "active" that we'll  
certainly have to sort out; but in conclusion, no general public open  
voting. But in any case that's just me talking, so please don't take  
it as an official stance, not just yet.

	And with respect to nominations: it's very exciting to see people  
already warming up for the race, but if I may suggest anything it'd be  
to hold your horses a bit. For instance, PortMgr may come up with some  
sort of loose template through which we'd ask you to state to the  
public a couple of facts about yourself as the foundations for your  
ticket, or who knows what else, so until we have that sorted out it  
may not be too productive to have a potentially disordered influx of  
messages saying "I'm in!" in various different ways.

	I promise we'll get the plan fully ironed out pretty quick now, just  
hold your horses a bit longer! ;-)

	And, again, thanks to everyone for their participation and for  
continuously breathing life into the project!


> -- 
> Florian Ebeling
> florian.ebeling at gmail.com
> febeling at macports.org


	Regards,...


-jmpp

PS: Need I not say, we're open as always to suggestions on these  
implementation details we now need to iron out, like for instance on  
the couple of "maybe" cues I used as examples here.