> On Mar 28, 2017, at 8:15 PM, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> wrote: > > I asked a similar question on another list some time back, around voting in > new committers. I'm not going to share that thread (public vs private) but > I think the advice i got from it was spot on. In addition, I've heard > great additional feedback on other threads. > > Projects want committers who are infrequent, but able to contribute. They > want PMC members who are consistent and dedicated to the project.
Recall at a time, EVERYONE at Apache, and our projects, were fully volunteer with unknown and widely varying cycles of free time. We understood the ebb-and-flow of available time as an unaligned volunteer and based some of our core tenets around that. That's why, for example, merit doesn't expire. We realized that some time you have time, and some time you don't. So we never wanted to "penalize" people who were infrequent or had inconsistent time. Withholding PMC membership simply based on that seems very, very wrong to me. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
