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Groups
A Group is a collection of individuals who engage in open conversation about a common interest. That interest may be in the creation, enhancement, or maintenance of a specific body of code or it may lie in other areas, e.g., quality, documentation, or evangelism. Members of Groups will participate in ratifying the Constitution and electing a Governance Board.
Groups do not have file repositories of their own but they may sponsor Projects, which do. Groups may have web content and one or more mailing lists.
Until such time as a Constitution has been written and ratified, per the OpenJDK Charter, the following interim guidelines will govern the operation of Groups.
A Participant is an individual who has subscribed to one or more of a Group's mailing lists. A Participant may also post to a list, submit patches, and make other kinds of contributions.
A Member is a Participant who has demonstrated a history of significant contributions to a Group, has been granted Membership by that Group, and has signed the SCA. If a Group has the power to grant membership then the existing Members of that Group may promote an individual to Member status by a three-vote consensus (three yays, no nays) carried out over a seven-day period.
A Moderator is a Member of a Group who looks after the Group's mailing lists and web content, tallies votes, and acts as a contact point for the Group. A Group must have at least one Moderator, but may have more than one. The Members of a Group may select Moderators by any means they find convenient.
A new Group may be proposed by a Member of any existing Group, and must be seconded by two others. The proposal should be sent to the announcement list, with replies directed to the general discussion list. A proposal for a new Group must identify three existing Members who will be the initial Members of the Group. At least one of them must be identified as the Group's initial Moderator. After two weeks have passed for discussion the IGB will decide, by a simple majority vote, whether to approve the creation of the proposed Group. If approved then at that time the IGB will decide, by the same means, whether the new Group has the power to grant Membership. The IGB may dissolve a Group by a simple majority vote.
