On 6 February 2012 01:33, Ate Douma <a...@douma.nu> wrote: > On 02/06/2012 01:41 AM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: >> >> On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 01:26:47PM -0600, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: >>> >>> It might be worthwhile to require 3 ASF members on the initial release, >>> 2 on the next, 1 on the following and then trust the committee to follow >>> the established precedent. >> >> >> +1 >> >> Instead of automatically decreasing the count, the device I'd suggest is >> for >> the ASF Members on the committee to vote to grant binding votes to >> individual >> contributors who they believe have demonstrated a thorough understanding >> of >> the Apache Way. >> >> Release Managers would be prime candidates; given the challenge of getting >> an >> incubating release out the door, an RM will likely have acquired greater >> expertise than many ASF PMC members who have been voted directly into TLP >> PMCs. Just being an RM might not be enough, but it would be left to the >> judgment of the ASF Members / Mentors to vet and vote on candidates. >> >> The canonical path towards project autonomy would thus be to make three >> incubating releases with three different contributors serving as RM. > > > What worries me a lot about the recent proposals, not only the text above, > is that project autonomy seems to be measured foremost by just doing proper > releases. > > To me, Apache == Community over code.
+1000 (I fully support everything Ate says here and I will further observe that I have learned much about mentoring from Ate). Ross --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
