On 3/16/06, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm convinced - this definitely seems like a very good reason to have > inactive committers following an incubated project through to either > TLP stage, or into another TLP, but not being on the PMC. I'd be less > convinced on a project that wasn't previously open so that there was > no way to know if committers had previously contributed; but for open > source projects who join the incubator this is a great point.
Jackrabbit is a fairly good and recent example. A bunch of people dropped off the Jackrabbit PMC roster submitted to the Board because they themselves stated that they weren't active and should be emeritus. Note that a critical difference perhaps from what you're stating, I believe, was that the Jackrabbit folks were given the choice to go emeritus and explicitly took up that offer - with the understanding that they can re-join the PMC at any time. The key may have been stressing that choosing to go emeritus is a very very reversible action later on. (Not making that a reversible action was the fracas that Ant ran into.) -- justin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
