On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Guillaume Nodet<gno...@gmail.com> wrote: > We have in this proposal a lot of people who are not felix committers and > who are not even apache committers at all. > > They want to work on some code and create a community around it. The way > the ASF works means that the incubator is the right place to do so.
Sidenote: not necessarily always the *only* possible right place. A PMC can easily grant lots of access to its repositories to existing committers. For example, the gump repo is open to all ASF committers, and the excalibur repo is open to cocoon, james and turbine committers. Adding new committers obviously has a few more barriers, but those barriers are not all bad. It can also be quite healthy for people new to apache to submit patches that are committed by those people that are already apache committers; I believe its often a faster way to learn apache-style processes than the sort-of "sandboxing" that happens in incubator. In fact, Harmony started with 0 committers (and lots of contributors) and the community dynamic that resulted from that approach was actually quite a good one, and I don't think it meant lost velocity in the end either. cheers, - Leo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
