On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 9:45 AM Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 28/03/2019 13:24, Eric Covener wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 8:59 AM Naomi Slater <n...@tumbolia.org> wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 at 13:14, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote: > >> > >>> > >>>> but in practice, this isn't true. and our committer demographics > >>>> demonstrate this > >>> > >>> Then those PMCs have a f'ed up definition and measure of merit. > >>> > >> > >> but this is true for all PMCs, and indeed our board. we have dismal > >> representation for non men, non white people, etc, etc, across the whole > >> organization. so you're saying that our whole organization has a f*ed up > >> definition and measure of merit. which is precisely my point. and why I > >> started this thread. > > > > For which projects do you have demographic data about unrecognized > > contributions? This implies "all of them" which would be impressive. > > The 2016 committer survey indicated significant under-representation > from just about any category you care to think of except "white men".
That's under-representation against the global population and not against the pool of contributors. I don't agree that it represents a meritocracy failure of projects, irrespective of whether comdev should be trying to build a bigger or more diverse pool of contributors. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
