On 4/6/07, Martin Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ok, I think that has cleared things up a bit for me I'll send out these requests that I've been sitting on for a few weeks now as we need to get the accounts set up for our new committers.
Just as it appeared this subject was cleared up, Noel replied to Qpid's root requests with the following clarifications: 1. Only IPMC members (e.g. mentors) should send root requests for new podling committers. 2. A podling committer vote requires three IPMC +1s to be approved (ideally the mentors, assuming the project still has three mentors). This was not my recollection and is not how I read what we have documented at http://incubator.apache.org/guides/ppmc.html: "Only votes cast by (P)PMC members are binding. If the vote is positive, the contributor formally becomes an Apache committer. A (P)PMC member should then follow the documented procedures to complete the process, but please CC both the Incubator PMC and the PPMC when sending the necessary e-mails to root."
From Noel's comments, it sounds like those "(P)"s should be removed
from the above sentence. I honestly don't know if this is a case of things evolving rules, or different IPMC members thinking they agreed with each other and not realizing they had different ideas, or (equally likely) that I knew the "right way" to do this long ago and have since lost my mind. So, I have chosen to handle this by offering my IPMC/mentor vote to the three qpid votes that were summarized on this list last month. I've been very impressed with how the Qpid folks have discussed and evaluated which contributors should join them as committers, and I have no problem endorsing their choices. I can also do the sending of the root requests when there are two other +1 IPMC votes. But, I wanted to bring the issue up here so everyone can tell me either: "Cliff -- you've lost your mind. It's always been done this way. You should get on top of these things or take a vacation and come back refreshed." or "Hmmmm...I guess I was confused as well. I should make sure the project I'm mentoring is following the points Noel made above." Cliff --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
