Jim, thanks for your efforts on this. Appreciate all your help so far. Ed
> On Sep 24, 2013, at 4:39 PM, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote: > >> On Sep 24, 2013, at 4:21 PM, Ed Anuff <e...@anuff.com> wrote: >> >> We definitely want participation, that's what this is all about, but I'm a >> little bit surprised at the number of folks all from the same company >> affiliation who want to be committers that have had heretofore no >> involvement or interest in the project for it's previous 2 years of ASLv2 >> existence on GitHub. Would really like to see some code contributions to at >> least make sure there's an understanding of the architecture, but maybe >> that's not the way the process works. > > It's not. The idea of coming to Apache is to build > a community around it. The fact that you were unable > to do so at Github, or that people had no involvement or > interest while there, is somewhat immaterial. What if > it had been a closed-source project? Would you wish to > prevent interested people from joining then as well? > > The more successful podlings are those who tried to > start building community from the start, with the actual > proposal, and allowing people to express their interest > and desire to be part of that community from the get-go. > > But it is no longer my direct concern since I decline to > be Champion for this proposal any longer. If things aren't > fun, I don't want to be bothered. > > >> >> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Alex Karasulu <akaras...@apache.org> wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 1:34 AM, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote: >> >>>> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 02:40:19PM +0200, Lieven Govaerts wrote: >>>>> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote: >>>>> Alex, if people want to join and add themselves as >>>>> committers, then they can. The bar to entry for podlings >>>>> during the initial proposal stage is "I'm interested" :) >>>> >>>> Is there some more background available on why the barrier is set this >>>> low in the incubator? It seems unnatural to me. A large part of >>>> incubation of course is to attract new committers, but why not let the >>>> podling decide on which barrier it wants to use? >>> >>> I said "initial proposal stage." After accepted and it actually becomes >>> a podling then, of course, the podling decides how high or low that >>> bar is. >>> >>> But we aren't talking about that. >> >> So during the "initial proposal stage" anyone who volunteers goes in >> without having to contribute? There's no input from the perspective >> podliing? >> >> -- >> Best Regards, >> -- Alex > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
