On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Josh Wills <jwi...@cloudera.com> wrote: >> That said, the team did feel strongly about keeping the initial committers >> to people who had already added major pieces of functionality to Crunch > > Speaking as a former benevolent dictator...
I don't imagine that any of the other committers consider me benevolent. ;-) > > When you bring a project to Apache, you have to accept that the project may > someday go in a direction that you don't want to go. That's the price for > giving other people a true stake in governance. > > Console yourself with the thought that if an active community takes the > project and runs with it -- in any direction -- the project has succeeded. I feel this wholeheartedly. The decision to take Crunch to the Incubator was based on the fact that some of the most important contributions to the project this year did not come from someone at Cloudera, and that Robert, Gabriel, and Chris had contributed so much that they had just as much right to decide the future direction of the project as I did. There is nothing I admire more about the ASF than its commitment to meritocracy. > > Marvin Humphrey > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > -- Director of Data Science Cloudera Twitter: @josh_wills --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
