OpenJDK Community Bylaws: Second Public Draft

[Dalibor Topic]

On 6/15/11 10:42 AM, Volker Simonis wrote:
> So for me the "Author" role is a little artificial, because already
> "Contributors" have the right to submit changes. Why do you need
> special rights to create changesets for a specific code repository?

A Contributor may or may not have been granted direct push access to 
a Project’s code repositories. An Author with that right is a Committer.

> Moreover the bylaws do not define a way how to become an Author
> (except for newly created Projects where the initial Authors are
> appointed by the Project Lead).

To quote from the final draft: http://openjdk.java.net/groups/gb/bylaws/draft-openjdk-bylaws-10

A Project Lead is a Committer to that Project who is responsible for directing and coordinating the Project’s activities. A Project’s Lead has:
[snip]
    The authority to appoint and remove Authors who are not also Committers; 

cheers,
dalibor topic

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