On 21 August 2012 17:23, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Ross Gardler > <rgard...@opendirective.com> wrote: >> On 21 August 2012 17:02, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Ross Gardler >>> <rgard...@opendirective.com> wrote: >>>> Further to Bertrand comment it's not the PMC that is important but the >>>> people doing stuff. >>>> >>>> I'd disagree with the assertion "any other PMC", many of the PMCs I work >>>> with don't have such list (of course it's easily available via foundation >>>> pages if people want it). >>> >>> Well, if I revised that to 'some' I suppose there would be no argument >> >> Not from me :-) >> >>> -- but -- better yet -- many PMCs have some concept of 'the team' in >>> their web presence . Should comdev? Not a rhetorical question; I could >>> see arguments either way. >> >> Like you I'm willing to listen to new arguments. This comes up every >> time I start mentoring a new project and I am yet to see a good >> argument for publicly stating "PMC member X is more important than >> contributor Y" (which is what I believe such "team pages" do). >> Consider that PMC Member X may be inactive and contributor Y may be >> elected a PMC member in a couple of weeks. There are, as you say, >> arguments both ways, for me the ones saying everyone is equal always >> win out. >> >> A more concrete example. The majority of work for this PMC is GSoC. We >> have two admins each year and around 40 mentors appointed (and maybe >> another 40 who don't get a student). In terms of hours of effort >> mentors work harder but typically they will not be ComDev PMC members. >> In terms of having to drop everything to solve a specific problem >> quickly, or meet tight deadlines, admins work much harder. Personally >> I'd rather just applaud everyone equally than try and say one is more >> deserving of public credit than another. >> >> Maybe I'm too much of an old hippie though ;-) > > > Whoops. I'm really *not* arguing for a PMC list. I'd be happy with any > community list. I won't even make an extended issue if someone offers > a reason to have *no* list.
Ahhh... that's quite different and even harder to maintain (Bertrands point) since we can't point at committers lists. Do mentors go on it? What about mentors who evaluated but didn't get a student? What about someone who writes some ComDev docs? Ross
