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<h1>Project roles</h1>
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<a href="#overview">Overview</a>
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<a href="#roles">The roles</a>
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<li>
<a href="#pmc-member">PMC Member</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#pmc-chair">PMC Chair</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#release-manager">Release Manager</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#forrest-friday-coordinator">ForrestFriday Coordinator</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#issue-tracker-coordinator">Issue Tracker Coordinator</a>
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<a href="#documentation-coordinator">Documentation Coordinator</a>
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<a href="#subversion-monitor">Subversion Monitor</a>
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<a href="#legal-monitor">Legal Monitor</a>
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<a name="N1000D"></a><a name="overview"></a>
<h2 class="underlined_10">Overview</h2>
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<p>
There are many tasks that need to be done to keep the project flowing.
With the tasks being well-defined, the hope is that various people will
be able to assist to carry out the role and so not rely on a couple of
individuals to do all the work.
</p>
<p>
There are no roles for "leadership" of technical areas. We don't have
the concept of leadership at the ASF. Rather these are "functional
roles".
</p>
<p>
This is not intended to put pressure on people to force them to do work
nor "pull their weight". If they do not manage to do a task, then
someone else will be able to do it. Of course, shared load means a
healthy project.
</p>
<p>
Most roles have minimal tasks and are not too onerous. For example, for
the "Documentation Coordinator", the only job might be to publish the
documentation every Friday. Sure it can be done at other times and other
people can do it too, but at least it gets done once per week.
</p>
<p>
Having a person doing a role does not mean that everyone can leave it to
them and rely on them. Anyone else can dive in and do the job (for
example, publish the docs twice per week). The more people who are
familiar with the role, the better. Perhaps the person who is primarily
doing that role will notice that there can be improvements to how they
are doing it.
</p>
<p>
If a person is dissatisfied with the way a particular role is being done
then find a way to offer constructive criticism, perhaps by assisting or
by enhancing the role documentation.
</p>
<p>
Most of the roles (except of course the Developer role) can only be
carried out by PMC members because commit access is required.
</p>
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<a name="N10029"></a><a name="roles"></a>
<h2 class="underlined_10">The roles</h2>
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<p>
These are the main roles, including the obvious ones. There are probably
other roles that need to be defined also. Each role should have some
continually enhanced documentation about it, so that any person can do
the tasks.
</p>
<a name="N10032"></a><a name="pmc-member"></a>
<h3 class="underlined_5">PMC Member</h3>
<p>
This is well-defined in our <a href="guidelines.html">project
guidelines</a> and in the top-level ASF docs.
</p>
<a name="N10040"></a><a name="pmc-chair"></a>
<h3 class="underlined_5">PMC Chair</h3>
<p>
This is well-defined in our <a href="guidelines.html">project
guidelines</a> and in the top-level ASF docs.
</p>
<a name="N1004E"></a><a name="release-manager"></a>
<h3 class="underlined_5">Release Manager</h3>
<p>
Tasks are defined in <a href="procedures/release/How_to_release.html">How to Release
Forrest</a>
</p>
<p>
Only one person can do this role, although other people can assist.
There is a lot of knowledge invested in this role. Document it as much
as possible.
</p>
<a name="N1005F"></a><a name="forrest-friday-coordinator"></a>
<h3 class="underlined_5">ForrestFriday Coordinator</h3>
<p>
The tasks are defined in
<a href="forrest-friday.html">ForrestFriday</a>.
</p>
<p>
Each month someone needs to co-ordinate the IRC session and be the
main channel operator, maintain the logfile and commit it to the
events SVN.
</p>
<p>
Ensure that the session is summarised.
</p>
<p>
This role can possibly be done by someone who is not a committer.
However, a logfile and summary need to be committed to SVN.
</p>
<a name="N10076"></a><a name="issue-tracker-coordinator"></a>
<h3 class="underlined_5">Issue Tracker Coordinator</h3>
<p>
Add new Components, e.g. for each new plugin.
</p>
<p>
Other general Admin tasks.
</p>
<p>
Add new committers to the forrest-administrators group.
</p>
<p>
Add/enhance <a href="issues.html">Filters</a>.
</p>
<p>
Review issues to ensure that they are properly categorised. This is
best done as soon as a new issue comes in.
</p>
<p>
Review the list of unscheduled issues.
</p>
<p>
Each month get the project to review the outstanding major issues that
are scheduled for the upcoming release.
</p>
<a name="N10096"></a><a name="documentation-coordinator"></a>
<h3 class="underlined_5">Documentation Coordinator</h3>
<p>
Publish the documentation at least once per week.
</p>
<p>
Various people make edits to the source files, but often the
documentation is not generated and published. Also people add new
entries to site-author/status.xml but the changes.html needs to be
regularly generated from it.
</p>
<p>
This role is not actually about doing the documentation. That should
be up to everyone.
</p>
<p>
Generating and publishing the main docs is very easy using a local
forrestbot: See <a href="procedures/How_to_publish_docs.html">How to publish Forrest
documentation</a>.
</p>
<a name="N100AD"></a><a name="subversion-monitor"></a>
<h3 class="underlined_5">Subversion Monitor</h3>
<p>
Ensure that svn:eol-style settings are "native" for all text files.
</p>
<p>
Ensure no line-endings issues.
</p>
<p>
Regularly run xml-tidy. (Not yet ready.)
</p>
<p>
Regularly run java-tidy. (Not yet ready.)
</p>
<p>
There are already some Perl scripts and other tools in the
"<a href="https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers">committers</a>"
SVN in the "tools" directory.
</p>
<a name="N100C7"></a><a name="legal-monitor"></a>
<h3 class="underlined_5">Legal Monitor</h3>
<p>
Regularly run a script which verifies and inserts missing license
headers to source files.
</p>
<p>
Regularly ensure that there are appropriate matching licenses to
accompany each supporting product that we redistribute.
</p>
<p>
This should have continual oversight by the PMC as a whole, but the
monitoring is something that needs to be done regularly, and
definitely prior to each release.
</p>
<p>
There are already some Perl scripts and other tools in the
"<a href="https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers">committers</a>"
SVN in the "tools" and "relicense/src/perl" directories.
</p>
<a name="N100DE"></a><a name="developer"></a>
<h3 class="underlined_5">Developer</h3>
<p>
The above roles are only for PMC Members. How can the Developers be
involved? That is easy: do the Developer Role.
</p>
<p>
Help out with commenting on the Issue Tracker, fixing the issues,
contributing to discussion, contributing patches, turning discussion
into clear documentation.
</p>
<p>
This is incredibly valuable and will enable the project to grow. After
time, you will probably be elected as Committer/PMC Member and when
comfortable, can take on one of the Project Management Roles.
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