On 10/8/06, Jason van Zyl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8 Oct 06, at 8:55 AM 8 Oct 06, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > On 10/8/06, Jim Jagielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> However, in that case I would really like to see it that >> if committers from other ASF projects read the proposal >> and have a sincere interest in helping, that they be >> included in the initial list, since I think it helps >> bootstrap the community process right off the bat. > > > Noel and I were chatting about this last night, and my position is > that I'm > okay with 'piling on' by ASF folks *if* the podling community is > happy with > that. If the podling folks do not want them on the initial list > and desire > that they earn their commit bits through actual participation, I'm > okay with > that too. > > Noel's said that being the arbitrator of who is on the list should > be the > role of the Champion and I think that's probably as good as we're > going to > get. But, by the time the Incubator PMC votes on a proposal, that > list must > be set (i.e. no deletions after the vote concludes). -- justin +1 In addition I would like to add the process used for OpenEJB as the gold standard for creating this initial list: --- As far as how we came up with the commit list, it's actually pretty neat. For the proposal, I added everyone who had commit. For the actual giving commit, I was much more cautious. I created a status file and gave people basically two months to add their name. I did this for two reasons 1. filters the completely inactive and proves at least some level of activity (you have to at least read the list and update svn) 2. a formal acknowledgment that you understand and agree with our moving to apache and want to participate
I disagree with filtering even inactive old contributors to an incoming project (at least for open source projects, I'm not sure how I feel with regard to inactive contributors to proprietary code that's being contributed). I think it would be quite wrong if a former contributor were to show up 6 months after the project moved to the ASF and had to jump through all sorts of hoops to gain access to the code again. At the very least we should have some provision for preemptively marking inactive people as emeritus committers, who can come back at any time. -garrett --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
