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OpenOffice.org Engineering Steering Committee

 

Objective

The rules for the OpenOffice.org Engineering Steering Committee (ESC) gives instructions for the procedures to be followed in the decision-making process of the OpenOffice.org ESC.

Organization

The ESC was established by agreement of the Community Council in September 2004.

Current Representatives

Regular Members of the ESC:

  • Nils Fuhrmann (Sun)
  • Pavel Janik
  • Dieter Loeschky (Sun)
  • Michael Meeks (Novell)
  • Volker Quetschke
  • Caolan McNamara (Redhat)

Members invited on regular basis:

  • Xiuzhi Cheng (REDFLAG 2000)
  • Matthias Klose (Ubuntu)
  • Rene Engelhard (Debian)
  • Erik (Yong Lin) Ma (IBM)

Project Leads:

  • Mathias Bauer (Sun)
  • Martin Hollmichel (Sun)
  • Matthias Huetsch (Sun)
  • Rafaella Braconi (Sun)

Responsibility

The responsibility of the ESC is as follows:

  • Provide advice on technical implementations in case of conflicting interests.

It is not the forum for making technical decisions in general, this remains in the responsibility of the project leads.

  • Their advice can be overruled by the Community Council.

Membership

Any member of the ESC should be a senior developer who:

  • has actively been contributing patches/fixes to OpenOffice.org for over 2 years

  • has contributed patches in more than one project

There can be 4 types of membership in the ESC:

  • representatives from larger group of contributors of the OpenOffice.org community. This can be e.g. representatives for Linux distributions, porting or localization teams or representatives of companies which contribute to the project. These members have to be confirmed by the community council. These members have the power to exercise on vote.

  • project leads of the established projects of OpenOffice.org can be a member of ESC. The project lead have the power to exercise on vote.

  • members of the community council can be a member of ESC. As long as they are qualified as senior developer, they also have the power to exercise one vote.

  • Guest members may be invited by the ESC, but have no power to vote.

New members fulfilling one of the above criteria from can be nominated by any member of the OpenOffice.org community and will be confirmed by the Community Council.

ESC meetings

The ESC, when it meets operates on the basis of consensus. Since ultimately it makes recommendations for consideration by the community council - which most commonly operates in a similar fashion, there is no complex process involved.

Reporting

It is expected, that in accordance with good meeting practice, minutes will be produced and sent to the list, annotated with suitable resolutions & action items. Since May 2007, ESC meeting mitnutes are recorded in the OpenOffice.org Wiki

Discussions

Discussions take place on esc@council.openoffice.org. The list archives are public but discussions are limited to the representatives. Discussions may also take place on IRC, in which case the IRC log will be made public and posted to esc@council.openoffice.org.

 

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