Roy On 7/19/06, Roy T. Fielding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I believe that it is a bad idea to allow people to add themselves to a proposal as committers without first obtaining the consent of the person(s) making the proposal. Being a committer in the incubator is giving a person the right to veto code changes based on whatever technical reason they deem significant. We should not hand out that right like candy to anyone who happens to edit a wiki page.
I agree. But I also think that making it very easy for existing Apache Committers to join an project is valuable. 1) Some incubator proposals include only the existing core development team on a project. However, some other incubator proposals include many "new" proposed committers, some of whom have never submitted code to the project. I don't have anything against this, but I think it is an important point that the proposed committers are not necessarily existing coders on that project. 2) Apache Committers, from whatever different project, have at some point proved their worth in some way. In general I would expect them to be a welcome addition to an incubator project. If nothing else they have some idea of the Apache model and approach. So I fully agree it shouldn't be a matter of "piling on" or just editing the wiki page. On the other hand, sending a note to the mailing list, *as well* as editing the wiki page is not a crime. The wiki page can always been edited back again (and in fact I've had that happen to me when I've offered to mentor). The first few time I volunteered on an Incubator project, no-one bothered to add me to the wiki, simply through inaction. So I favour the active approach. I believe that sending a note to [EMAIL PROTECTED] saying that you are a committer on X & Y project and some of your background, and you are a willing participant is a reasonable approach and should be looked on favourably by the proposers of new projects to incubation. Paul -- Paul Fremantle VP/Technology, WSO2 and OASIS WS-RX TC Co-chair http://bloglines.com/blog/paulfremantle [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oxygenating the Web Service Platform", www.wso2.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
