Noel J. Bergman wrote on Sunday, June 13, 2004 4:31 PM: > Cliff Schmidt wrote: >> Roy T. Fielding wrote: >>> Leo Simons wrote: >>>> [is the rule that a project just needs 3 independent committers, or >>>> is there an additional rule that no more than 50% of the committers >>>> must be part of a single company?] >>>> >>>> IIRC that 50% rule applies, but IANAL. Roy, Nicola? >>> >>> I have no idea where that 50% stuff came from. The goal of having >>> at least three independent members of the project PMC (*committers* >>> has no decison-making role in the foundation, even when committers >>> == PMC) is to make sure someone is able to veto stuff that would get >>> us in trouble. 50% would be nice, but not necessary unless we are >>> talking about the ASF board. >>> >>> I don't know if this should even apply to code that is being >>> inserted into an existing project. >> >> XMLBeans has been actively developing in the incubator for 9 months. >> The project started with three independent committers and has picked >> up brought on two more from Apache contributors in the last couple >> months. However, 55% of the committers are BEA employees, and for >> that reason alone, XMLBeans has yet to request graduation from >> the incubator. > > Cliff, what is the current breakdown of the XMLBeans team membership?
6 BEA-employed committers + 5 independent committers - let me know if you were asking for something else. > If this "50% rule" is the only thing keeping XMLBeans in the > Incubator, let's see what we can do about getting you released. > > An obvious question: do you feel that if BEA were to drop XMLBeans > for some reason, that there is a sufficient independent community to > continue the project? I think there is definitely sufficient community interest to keep the project going; however, it would probably move a lot slower if BEA were to drop XMLBeans today. I'd still like to see more non-BEA involvement in the future, but the trend is certainly positive. Of course, I understand why you're asking this question (corporate priorities sometimes change; without an independent community, the entire project could fail on a change of one company's priorities); but just to clarify for anyone concerned with the topic -- BEA has absolutely no intention of dropping support of the XMLBeans project. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
