On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > On 11/05/2015 12:02 AM, Joe Schaefer wrote: >> Committership is the right to do work on the project. PMC membership is the >> right to participate in governance. People left in the nebulous state >> between >> committership and PMC membership for long periods of time more than likely >> will give up in frustration for not being trusted enough to govern their >> own work. > > Most of the older projects at the Foundation do not have PMC == > Committer. Notably, httpd. The notion that committers are automatically > PMC is a fairly new innovation. As it happens, it's an innovation that I > wholeheartedly support and recommend, but it's a minority of projects > that have this policy. If you follow board reports, you'll notice that > PMC additions and Committer additions are seldom coincident.
As a (PMC) Member I've always taken (one of) Roy's mantra to heart: those that do the work should steer the project. At Wicket we have committer == PMC, and I'd posit we are now among the 'Older' projects (given our 8 years here). Wicket just counts as one project so this doesn't invalidate your point, but adds a datapoint. Martijn --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
