Bertrand's post is much better than the similar in substance one that I composed but had not edited last night.
I can say from experience that [1] is well worth watching. I really like how this community self-innoculates. Regards, Dave On Nov 16, 2012, at 2:20 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Erik de Bruin <e...@ixsoftware.nl> wrote: >> ...I for one think PMC members should show a little more merit than sending >> one email they want to be PMC members. This is after all not the initial >> sign up for the PPMC, and the Apache organisation is a meritocracy.... > > If the PPMC wants to make that bar higher, that's a possibility, but I > personally don't see a need for that. > > You're right that some people have gained committership and PPMC > membership by just signing up on the incubation proposal, and might > not have contributed much in the meantime. > > What I see is that at least two of the people listed above are paying > sufficient attention to respond to this thread, and that's better than > nothing. > > IMO the only bad thing that can happen is having poisonous people on > the PMC [1] - if there's any concern about that that can be discussed > on the PPMC private list. > > -Bertrand > > [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q52kFL8zVoM