Re: contributions and their lifecycle

2017-01-23 Thread A. Soroka
Bertrand-- Thanks, this is good stuff. I take your point about final responsibility always resting with the PMC. I think what I am looking for is exactly examples of the kind you point to in Commons. I'm going to delve into the Maturity Model a bit. --- A. Soroka Apache Jena > On Jan 23, 2017,

Re: contributions and their lifecycle

2017-01-23 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 3:34 PM, A. Soroka wrote: > ...the project is humming along nicely, growing and changing organically, > when a Nice Person...presents > a contribution to the project. This contribution ...is _large_. It expands > the remit of the project much more > than the ordinary

Re: contributions and their lifecycle

2017-01-23 Thread A. Soroka
Thanks, Shane and Roman-- These answers aren't exactly to my question, and I see now that I did a very poor job of asking it. My apologies, and let me see if I can improve that. Jena does (I think!) very nice work keeping a strong committer population and we have a perfectly fine practice with

Re: contributions and their lifecycle

2017-01-22 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 2:27 PM, A. Soroka wrote: > Just a quick question for anyone who wants to answer or has any advice: > > Other than the obvious Apache-wide conditions (proper measures for > intellectual property, etc.), does anyone have examples of policies for > accepting and maintaining

Re: contributions and their lifecycle

2017-01-22 Thread Shane Curcuru
A. Soroka wrote on 1/22/17 5:27 PM: > Just a quick question for anyone who wants to answer or has any > advice: > > Other than the obvious Apache-wide conditions (proper measures for > intellectual property, etc.), does anyone have examples of policies > for accepting and maintaining (code) contri