On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 8:56 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
> For example, I'm really curious whether the current cast of NetBeans > mentors are really aware of the IP review workload that is going to hit > them > once NetBeans tries to produce its first official Apache Release. In that regard, I'm not concerned about "the known knowns" and "the known unknowns". Those are OK, we'll work through them. Just like you, I imagine, I'm concerned about "the unknown unknowns": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiPe1OiKQuk On the other hand, I know we will cross those bridges when we get to them. Gj On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 8:56 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 4:25 AM, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The NetBeans proposal (among many others in the past) has demonstrated a > > significant "problem" with trying to establish an appropriate list of > > initial committers. There are many people that want to be on, for various > > reasons. Because they are committers, recent or historic. Or they want > the > > "prestige" to be there. Some people believe they "deserve" to be on the > > list. etc etc > > > > Establishing the list is particularly difficult for large and old > > communities. > > > > But. What if we just said "no such list" ? > > > > This will shift the initial voting of committers upon the > Champion/Mentors > > who will construct the entirety of the PPMC. But hey: aren't they > supposed > > to be involved? Aren't they supposed to demonstrate how to earn merit, > and > > the committership that results? > > This! This requires a super engaged cast of Mentors that are actually > willing to spend significant ammount of time down in the trenches. > Unfortunately mentor availability (for even simple things like a report > sign-off) has been a constant (although not as urgent these days) > issue (*) > > With the right group of mentors -- I'm super +1 on this! > > Thanks, > Roman. > > (*) For example, I'm really curious whether the current cast of NetBeans > mentors are really aware of the IP review workload that is going to hit > them > once NetBeans tries to produce its first official Apache Release. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
