JimJag, for years, has written about the cultural implications of DVCS, and the email here supports what he's written. So I think we need to pay close attention.
I think that we care about both PMC and committer inventory. I, for one, would not want to see an Apache project that restricted commit access to a small group of PMC gatekeepers. You might think of it as 'commit=PMC' gone bad. I think that an important piece of Apache culture is that a very wide group of people is trusted with access to add to the main line of development, trusting in the PMC to use the tools available to attend to the rare mishap. This has nothing to do with the start of incubation in my view. Groovy can start with 2 committers or 200. By the end of incubation, however, I would hope to see some cultural shift in the direction of broad commit access. Given the existing size and health of the community, I'd agree with others that the usual concern of worrying about the community reaching and maintain critical mass does not come up. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
