On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Joe Brockmeier <j...@zonker.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2015, at 11:26 AM, Patrick Hunt wrote: > > So you are -1 then. That's fine. But it gets back to my original concern. > > It's artificial. I can go back to the Sentry community and say "hey, you > > need some PPMC members, vote some in" and they might do it. It was > > already > > mentioned earlier in this thread that one of the mentors feels that a > > couple of committers are ready. If they come back in a week and say "hey, > > we just voted in 3 new ppmc members, now we're ready right?" you'll be > > fine > > with that? This is why I highlighted it as artificial. > > FWIW I agree with you that it's "artificial" and for a podling that's > motivated to graduate (which Sentry appears to be) it's not hard to > paper that over and just say "OK, if we want to graduate, let's tick > this checkbox." > > Not having new PPMC folks is a symptom of what concerns me about Sentry. > I didn't see a focus on adding committers until prodded. I don't see a > focus on growing committers to become PMC members minus mentor prodding. > If a project cares about sustainability and growth, shouldn't it be > having these discussions? Their absence concerns me greatly. > > In my experience "growing the community" is hard. It's very easy to say, hard to do. Keep in mind all the things we're asking a bunch of folks to do - look at this thread. Patrick > Best, > > jzb > -- > Joe Brockmeier > j...@zonker.net > Twitter: @jzb > http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
