[Bug 415631] [EDP] EMO vs. EMO(ED)
Bugzilla Link | 415631 |
Status | NEW |
Importance | P3 normal |
Reported | Aug 21, 2013 16:31 EDT |
Modified | Oct 11, 2020 16:14 EDT |
Description
I believe that in some cases, the EDP uses the terms "EMO" and "EMO(ED)" inconsistently.
From section 4:
As defined by the Eclipse Bylaws - Article VII, the Eclipse Management Organization (EMO) consists of the Foundation staff and the Councils. The term EMO(ED), when discussing an approval process, refers to the subset of the EMO consisting of the Executive Director and whomever he or she may delegate that specific approval authority to.\
--We then have statements like this in section 4.5:
The Scope of a Sub-Project is defined by the initial project proposal as reviewed and approved by the Project Management Committee (PMC) (as further defined below) of the Project's Project's top parent and by the EMO. \
--In practice "EMO" means "Wayne and Mike". In this particular case, I'm all for course-correcting my process to more explicitly put project proposals in front of the councils and seek their approval. Is this desired, or does it add too much process? (making sure that the councils are aware of new projects seems like a good idea to me).
In section 6.2.1, "EMO" really means "Wayne": "The EMO will assist such groups in the preparation of a project Proposal." and "The Pre-proposal phase ends when the Proposal is published by EMO and announced to the membership by the EMO".
Section 6.3 mixes the roles up nicely...
"the EMO may initiate a Review on the Project's behalf" is--I think--wrong. I believe that it should be the PMC (see Bug 344041 Comment 6).
Also in that section: "A Review then continues with the Project's Leadership requesting that the EMO(ED) schedule the Review.", "Prior to the start of the review period, the Project leadership provides the EMO with review documentation.", and 'The EMO announces the Review schedule and makes the documentation available to the membership-at-large."
Further: "The Review begins with the EMO's posting of the review materials at the start of the Review period", and "The EMO(ED) approves or fails the Review based on the public comments, the scope of the Project, and the Purposes of the Eclipse Foundation as defined in the Bylaws." mix up the two terms.
In all these cases, "EMO" and "EMO(ED)" means "Wayne" (I am the EMO(ED) delegate in this case).
There are more examples.
Do we need to define a new role (e.g. Director of Open Source Projects)?
Or is it just the case that "Wayne" is the practical representative of the EMO and engages in all of these activities on behalf of the larger body, and we should change appropriate occurrences of "EMO(ED)" to "EMO"?
Or should we just update appropriate occurrences of "EMO" to "EMO(ED)" and Mike and I can hash out which parts he'll delegate to me?