Totally agree, Joe. Cheers, Chris
On 1/12/13 9:37 AM, "Joe Schaefer" <joe_schae...@yahoo.com> wrote: >The thing is, as far as risk management >goes, the vetting we do on general@incubator >is largely ceremonial. The real responsible >review work is done by people who are reviewing >commit activity, and it is a shame we don't >do a better job of empowering these conscientious >reviewers with a binding vote on a release. > > > > > >>________________________________ >> From: "Mattmann, Chris A (388J)" <chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov> >>To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <general@incubator.apache.org>; Joe >>Schaefer <joe_schae...@yahoo.com> >>Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 12:30 PM >>Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Expressing priorities about release reviews >> >>I agree with you on this Joe. A lot of times my metric is more >>responsiveness and participation than in legal/language intricacies. More >>power to folks who are good at that, it's just not me. >> >>Cheers, >>Chris >> >>On 1/12/13 9:07 AM, "Joe Schaefer" <joe_schae...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >>>One of my long time pet peeves with how we >>>PMC members participate in vetting releases >>>is our penchant for focusing too much on the >>>policies surrounding license and notice info. >>>I really think our exclusive focus on things >>>that really don't pose any organizational risk >>>to either the org nor the project participants >>>serves us well in our other, often unexpressed >>>but far more relevant, goals about encouraging >>>committers to participate in active review of >>>their project's commit activity. >>> >>>Just think about this for a second, what's more >>>likely for people to start suing us over, some >>>bug in the NOTICE file or an undetected backdoor >>>in one of our programs? I am personally far more >>>concerned about the current state of the actual >>>review going on in our podlings than I am about >>>NOTICE minutia. >>> >>>Maybe we should compile some list of which committers >>>are actually subscribed to their project's commit lists? >>>It's crude but it may be useful data to look at to >>>a first order. >> >> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >>For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
