-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Ceki Gülcü wrote: > > What is so special about the number 3? What's wrong with 5 committers? With > 4? With 2? With 1?
Nothing is wrong with 5, or 47. Those are good things. However, a project with 1 or 2 committers doesn't have a development community. Three favourable votes being required for passage of a significant action or event is one of the basic aspects of how Apache projects do things. There's nothing that says there can't be *more* than three positive votes, but something that doesn't garner at *least* three is considered non-viable. > I won't make any empty promises here. I don't think the LS PMC could take > over log4x code if the current contributors stopped working on it. How many contributors are there total? > Does "sustainable" necessarily mean 3 or more committers? Is a project with > a single committer yet consistent committer less viable than a project with > 30 disillusioned and inactive committters? IMHO, 'sustainable' means possessing a viable and active development community. Neither of the examples you give qualifies to my mind. - -- #ken P-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Ken.Coar.Org/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ "Millennium hand and shrimp!" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQCVAwUBQjcdTprNPMCpn3XdAQG2ygQAyBkSyE9Be4/VYWtIkYH+bU3KPI9uffww Ftr+soQvJNfsYF5KLdPHl4p/1smIRy817AIa+/9ym/eNbtOqjaMToHyw0HNvAE6N 2LlHH9I6bcaDvhreE0+mI3YnoTvoyaNixl0aS80Wk1epl8uQTYulNvDA8HdNnt59 CUsZDihWUw8= =sn8e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
