Nick, Everyone on the initial committers list was added because I guessed they would contribute. There was no way to determine whether they would or not. Nobody was added for political reasons.
When we graduated, we punted a few folks from that list but we kept most folks who at least sent in something in hopes they would contribute once we were out of incubation. Regardless, 9 months have passed since graduation and yes, some folks have been inactive, even one who was voted in during incubation. IMO, it shouldn't matter how you got on the list. -Alex ________________________________________ From: Nicholas Kwiatkowski [nicho...@spoon.as] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 8:10 AM To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Apache Flex Bylaws Greg, We have some people that were brought on during the incubation period who have yet to contribute anything -- or even join the mailing lists. They were added to the project during incubation because Adobe felt they would contribute -- or politically they needed to be involved. Do you feel we should hold some of those people in the same regard? On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Greg Reddin <gred...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 4:41 AM, Erik de Bruin <e...@ixsoftware.nl> wrote: > > I very much prefer to set a bar for active. The only time the inactive > > PMC members come out of the closet is if they are rallied to vote for > > a controversial issue. If you're not involved in the project > > (anymore), I don't think you should be allowed to have a binding vote. > > Erik > > There's a longstanding principle of Apache that "merit never expires." > The idea is that if a person has ever contributed something worthy of > giving him or her a binding voice on the project, that contribution is > permanent and the person always has a binding voice on the project. > > It's a recognition that people's priorities and interests change and > that we should allow people to move in and out of the daily function > of the project as their priorities drive them. So I think there are > two things we should remember: > > 1) As a project we should make it easy for PMC members to move in and > out of the PMC. If a PMC member resigns most projects consider them in > "emeritus" status and that means they can rejoin the project simply by > asking. We should also invite people to join the PMC recognizing it's > a permanent status. > > 2) As individuals we should let the project know when our priorities > have changed by resigning from the PMC, knowing that if our priorities > change again, we can easily come back. > > Greg >
