[DRAFT PROPOSAL] PEAR constitution

Hi all, I've just put up a draft of my ideas for PEAR's government. It is at: http://pear.php.net/~greg/constitution.txt This document draws upon over 2 years of serious back-channel discussion for a new direction, ideas presented on pear-dev by some of you, and some of my own ideas. I have made every conceivable attempt to keep it brief and clear while maintaining a flexible and realistic format. The structure of the new government borrows heavily from the idea of checks and balances, and is designed to reign in extremism while promoting innovation and decisiveness. The largest change is to divide up the responsibilities of the PEAR Group and QA Group while at the same time creating a new president and package groups called "collectives" who will have much more power over acceptance of packages and QA within the collective. The PEAR Group and president positions are held accountable to the developers through yearly elections. There's more, you can read about it at the link above. I welcome both criticism AND alternative well thought-out governing structures for PEAR. My goal is to end my transitional dictatorship early next year with a referendum deciding between several choices for where PEAR should go. The first will be "keep things the way they are" and then the rest of the choices will be this constitution proposal plus any other serious proposals presented. With any luck, 2007 will be the "year of PEAR" - when things really start popping and we see what is REALLY possible in PHP when we put our heads together. Greg