On 10/1/06, Dan Diephouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am pretty philosophically against making every committer PPMC members. Apache is meritocracy based and IMO it makes much more sense to start with the mentors on the PPMC and have committers voted on based on their leadership. There may be many people on the incubation proposal or who have committed code to a project in the past, but an additional level of leadership is needed [3]. Not everyone may have the necessary leadership skills, and to presuppose they do because they have contributed good code, is IMO, a mistake.
I don't agree at all. If they contribute code, they merit a say in the direction of the project. To do otherwise is to exclude them from the community. Remember that only folks on the PPMC have a vote: a committer does not have any say or vote in the project at all. The critical aim of the PPMC is to create a self-managing project. By excluding everyone from that process except for mentors, you will not be teaching the new people how the project should be managed. In the early days of the podlngs, the mentors should have proportionally more say in how things proceed; but in order to graduate to TLP status, the PPMC must be able to demonstrate the ability to manage itself - and probably the contributions from the mentors should be excluded from that determination - i.e. is the PPMC without the mentor able to govern itself. -- justin
