Eric,
> I realize we may have created some difficulties in merging two existing
> projects - Celtix from ObjectWeb and Xfire from Codehaus
> But we are nonetheless simply trying to do the right thing, not
> stacking the deck to control the project.
OK, let's please stop right here. At least in this discussion, no one has
said anything about that, at least to my notice. I intentionally renamed
these threads to get away from CeltiXFire, and a number of the issues that
I've mentiond in this thread have had nothing to do with CeltiXFire. For
example, as far as I know, we didn't have a third party company stuffing
their employees onto "someone else's" initial committer list. But these
things have happened in the past.
As I just wrote to Berin, a major goal of my proposing some changes to the
bootstrap is to help manage the Initial Committer List FOR THE BENEFIT OF
THE INCOMING COMMUNITY. I never suggested anything about limiting
legitimate members of the incoming community to participate, and would
consider such a thing to be very very wrong. I want to give the incoming
community the opportunity to decide for itself whom those people are. And
the "sign-up" sheet approach has been somewhat of a problem in that regard.
So my proposal was about replacing the sign-up sheet with a process where
the people involved in the community told us whom should be a Committer.
The whole thing about binding votes is a technical matter, and can largely
be ignored if the votes reflect the will of the community.
--- Noel
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