On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Ross Gardler <rgard...@opendirective.com> wrote: > 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?
fair enough. Perhaps I may post a patch via the CMS to say a few more words about the mailing list, then. > > Ross
