RoleOfChair - Jakarta Wiki

Chair role is:

Send quarterly report to the board.
Assist community in issues where the community is unable to find resolutions; personal issues are an obvious one.
Pass nominated PMC committers up to the board for approval, and 72 hours after an ack, edit the pmc-committee.txt in svn://commiters/board/.
#1: Strive to stay out of the way and let the community drive Jakarta.
Pass information from the Board back to the PMC.
Ultimately responsible to the board for oversight of the PMC.
Keep a keen eye out for any legal issues which might crop up and liase with the board/legal-internal mail lists to ensure things stay legal.
Grant karma to version control.
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Chair should:

Chair may want to:

subscribe to prc@apache.org (Public Relations)
subscribe to all mail lists within their project (for Jakarta I subscribe to all the dev lists)
moderate other mailing lists (I moderate general@jakarta and announcements@jakarta; both of which help me to keep oversight)

In addition:

I plan to document the long-term issues facing Jakarta as a whole, and important issues concerning sub-projects. Hopefully this will keep them in the community's minds.
Encourage Jakarta General usage for all but private PMC communication. We need to consider General as the main PMC list.
- (RESULT) threads typically go to general@jakarta.apache.org (use your judgement).
- Post new threads to general@jakarta.apache.org if at all possible.
- Post board report to general@jakarta.apache.org.
- Hopefully, post a monthly report to the General list (newsletter style), and collate these into the quarterly board report.
Detail which roles are being fulfilled by committers, and ensure they remain fulfilled.