What's wrong with a dictator for life? Larry Wall is the dictator for life for Perl but that doesn't mean that Perl isn't a meritocracy.
Besides, what qualifies as "dictator for life" behavior, anyway? If all the contributors to a project are Sun employees, wouldn't Sun be essentially a dictator for life? And even if Sun doesn't engage in "dictator for life" behavior, what about Oracle, who bought Sun? Will Glass-Husain wrote: > Hi-- > > I went away from email for half a day and got a ton of new messages! > > As a mentor to Click, I can attest that there's a small but active > community involved. It's consistently operated in a transparent and > open manner. There's been no signs of "dictatator for life" behavior. > The founder of the project (Malcolm) is a frequent but not > heavy-handed presence on the lists. Bob Schellink has overseen many > of the details of going through the incubation process. (and Naoki > Takezoe has consistently contributed as well). Contributions and > discussion from a variety of contributors have been welcomed and > accepted. > > I note too that Malcolm has been part of the Velocity community for > some years with frequent feedback, bug reports, and occasional > patches. > > One issue that has come up is that none of the Mentors (myself > included) are users of Click (and hence not contributors). It would > be nice if the PMC and committership were larger but there are > successful projects with small PMCs - Velocity has had 3-5 active PMC > members for some years now while successfully supporting a much large > user base. I agree with Andrus that there's an opportunity to reach > out to people more specifically, but such efforts do not magically > turn contributors into committers. > > We had some discussion about graduation (and the committer size > specifically) on the Click list between the mentors and the community. > Our advice was essentially "go for it". > > Click's an innovative project with a small but open community. The > core members clearly get the Apache Way. And the size of the PMC, > while a concern, has potential to grow over time. I vote +1. > > WILL > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz > <bdelacre...@apache.org> wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Andrus Adamchik <and...@objectstyle.org> >> wrote: >>> ...the project is fine, but should >>> take a break with graduation to reevaluate its ranks and recruit willing and >>> deserving individuals, and come back here maybe in 2-3 months if this >>> endeavor is successful.... >> sounds like a plan, +1 to that. >> -Bertrand >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
