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On Tuesday, 21 August 2012, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -- Sent from mobile device - apologies for errrs ;-)
