Begin forwarded message: From: "Roy T. Fielding" <field...@gbiv.com> Subject: piling on Date: July 19, 2006 3:09:17 PM PDT To: general@incubator.apache.org Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org
I believe that it is a bad idea to allow people to add themselves to a proposal as committers without first obtaining the consent of the person(s) making the proposal. Being a committer in the incubator is giving a person the right to veto code changes based on whatever technical reason they deem significant. We should not hand out that right like candy to anyone who happens to edit a wiki page. Podlings must be open to new contributors and should add contributors to the list of committers fairly quickly, at least when compared to more established Apache projects. However, the core team must be allowed to select other core members based on mutual consensus, since consensus is how code changes are approved. How a community exercises that consensus is one of the primary determinants for graduation. In contrast, letting anyone "pile on" to a podling while it is at the proposal stage is placing an unequal burden on a new podling that we would never place on a full project. If the community is not cohesive, no consensus will be possible and we effectively hamstring the podling before it is even started. ....Roy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
