On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 8:24 AM, ant elder <ant.el...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Eric Evans <eev...@rackspace.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:16 +0000, ant elder wrote: > >> so about 6 months ago to try to help with problems they were having, > >> and since then 99% of the commits have been made by only two people. > > > > I assume you're referring to Jonathan Ellis and myself, and I'm not sure > > that's exactly fair. There are only 4 active committers, and of the 4, > > Jonathan and I spend the most time committing patches contributed by > > people who can't, and quite often the "review" was conducted by someone > > else who doesn't have commit rights and we are simply acting as a proxy. > > This results in a lot of svn commits made by us, for contributions that > > are not technically ours. > > > > As a convention, we typically put something like "Patch by $author; > > reviewed by $reviewer for $issue_id" in the change description. I just > > went through the commits scraping out those messages and it looks like > > Jonathan and I account for a little more than 60%, not 99%. > > > > -- > > Eric Evans > > eev...@rackspace.com > > > > So about 40% of the committed code is coming from others and reviewed > by others - great - why not make some of those others committers? > > That's pretty much what they're doing about right now but as you know, it takes some time to establish a good patch history. I really don't thin Cassandra should be accused of being bad at attracting and voting in new committers. Given how they started they're definitely better at it than most podlings. Matthieu > ...ant > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
