New Jakarta Chair
Yesterday, the
Apache Software
Foundation's
Board of
Directors appointed Geir Magnusson Jr. as the new chair of the
Jakarta
Project
Management Committee. I will remain on the PMC as well as
the board.
I was appointed as the chair
just under three years ago after having served as the release
manager for both Ant and
Tomcat.
For the
past year, I have been actively seeking a replacement.
The reason is simple: while at first, I had an itch that needed
scratching and I sought to make a number of good things happen,
over time those itches were scratched and my role evolved into one
of stopping bad things from happening (project members misbehaving,
addressing criticisms from within the foundation, etc.).
Focusing exclusively on defense is not a sustainable model: there
also need to be a focus on building.
In
addition to Geir and my world views being very much aligned, Geir
is also the ASF's representative to the JSPA's SE/EE
Executive Committee.