Hi Guys,
Isn't the whole point of incubation community? We want the community
and we want to grow it while in incubation.
Good doc and QA people will go just as far as good coders in building
a user community (perhaps even further) while making it possible for
the coders to build more code.
IMO we should be dancing in the streets that there is a QA and doc
team ready to go.
Now on to the specifics of this proposal, if the people from BEA are
involved because they are employees of BEA but don't really want to
continue working on OpenJPA if/when their employment changes then I
guess I'd not be so happy. But if they are committed to the project
then I say welcome aboard, can we get some of your time over on
MyFaces...
BTW: I don't think its so easy to get good people of any skill set...
TTFN,
Bill Dudney
MyFaces - myfaces.apache.org
On Mar 8, 2006, at 3:11 PM, robert burrell donkin wrote:
On 3/8/06, Yoav Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hola,
it's easy to get good open source coders: it's much harder to find
good documentors who are willing to contribute to open source
projects. demand for good documentation is always high but supply is
typically low. i'm willing to cut good documentors much more slack
than coders.
Hypothetically, does slack == commit privileges, or do we want to set
the bar for committership higher?
If Joe Q. Random emailed us saying he thinks [some currently in
incubation project] is great and he's a technical writer and would
like commit access so that he can write up the docs for it, would he
get that access? Probably not,
i'd say: submit a patch :)
given enough good patches, i'd nominate them
but the difference here is that the
proposed documentors and QA people are already part of the team, so
they're not random...
I also suppose we can always review the status of documentation and
test cases at the end of incubation, see who did what, and
accordingly
adjust the commiter list during incubator graduation?
isn't this really an issue about the bootstrapping committer lists?
should there be any difference between a coder who hasn't hacked a
line and a documentor who hasn't written a word?
- robert
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