Looking at the following contribution page https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ConfigureReport.jspa?versionId=-1&issueStatus=all&selectedProjectId=12310963&reportKey=com.sourcelabs.jira.plugin.report.contributions%3Acontributionreport&Next=Next
Quite a bit of the contribution during incubation to the project has been external even though the committers list has one org providing >50% of the membership. If the rule is formal vs informal is it possible to get an exemption? cheers, -George On 3/18/10 10:18 AM, Leif Hedstrom wrote: > On 03/18/2010 09:43 AM, Mladen Turk wrote: >> On 03/18/2010 04:34 PM, Leif Hedstrom wrote: >>> On 03/18/2010 09:11 AM, Leif Hedstrom wrote: >>>> >>>> Ah, bummer, yeah, that disqualifies us immediately. Even if you look >>>> at "active committers", there are 6 Yahoos (including the two doc >>>> people) and only 4 non-Yahoo's. >>> >>> So, after talking with Anirban, he's willing to make some compromises >>> here to allow us to graduate. A couple of suggestions (depends on how >>> you define "active committers"): >>> >>> 1) We remove Yahoos from the membership to reduce the ratio to >>> exactly 50%. >>> >> >> Like said, IMHO this would not be fair. > > > Two more suggestions, that are somewhat more fair: > > 1) We pull all Yahoos from the PMC / committers list, and proceed with > graduation without us. Those of us who want to come back will go through > the normal process of becoming committers / PMC members. > > 2) We keep the bare minimum Yahoo members (we'd have to decide who, but > most likely only 2 people would stay), and then proceed with the > incubation process, and the Yahoos who wish to come back will go through > the normal process. > > > As for option #2, the Yahoo people would decide together who should > stay, but the idea to keep it at a bare minimum is to make is as little > unfair as possible, while still have enough to form a graduated PMC. > > Thoughts? > > -- leif
