On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 5:35 AM, Niclas Hedhman <nic...@hedhman.org> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Niall Pemberton > <niall.pember...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> You're insinuating too much here. Simply put the commons PMC would >> want to see committers in action before making them full blown Commons >> committers. This is no different from any of the other incubations >> that then graduate into an existing TLP. There are no boundaries >> between components in Commons - all committers have svn access to all >> components. > > Ok, I just deleted a long elaboration over the Open Participation > Software for Java (www.ops4j.org) community experiment, but I don't > think it would be appreciated. Instead, I say this; > > Letting everyone have write access to all Commons sub-projects, is not > an ASF requirement. You may distinguish between the sandbox and the > rest. And you may give people coming in with the code, commit rights > to sandbox while observing and teaching them what Apache is all about. > And you may have a unspoken rule of no releases from sandbox, as an > incentive of people to sharpen up.
True. The same logic could also apply to any proposal that wants to join an existing project rather than become a TLP though. Niall > Although I generally agree with Robert's sentiment, I don't think the > Comcubator will lessen the burden on the Incubator PMC. Not > necessarily by intent, but that there will be individuals who will > want to help out, that are currently helping out on Incubator, thus > thinning time for everything else. > > > Cheers > -- > Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer > http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java > > I live here; http://tinyurl.com/2qq9er > I work here; http://tinyurl.com/2ymelc > I relax here; http://tinyurl.com/2cgsug > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
