On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Martin Cooper <mart...@apache.org> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:20 AM, ant elder <ant.el...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'd like to propose that the process for Incubator poddlings to make >> someone a new committer is simplified so that all that is needed are >> votes from poddling committers and that there is no longer any need >> for votes from Incubator PMC members or a separate Incubator PMC vote. > > What makes me uneasy about this is that, notwithstanding the one > mentor vote, we are basically saying that the bar for ASF > committership can now be defined solely by a group of people who might > have no knowledge, as yet, of "the Apache way" in general and the way > meritocracy works in particular. > > -- > Martin Cooper >
>From this discussion, other then the mentor vote, there is still a need to notify the IPMC and if we give the 72 hrs the IPMC members can still provide oversight/investigation if they think there is an issue with the proposed committer. Having said that, we had this process in the past, and some podlings are already experimenting this process and it does not seem to have caused any issues. Anyway, just my 0.02c. -- Luciano Resende http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://twitter.com/lresende1975 http://lresende.blogspot.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
