"Sam Ruby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Pier Fumagalli wrote:
>>
>> I hate to be the PITA, as always, and I don't have anything against Dan
>> or the patches he submitted to SSIServlet, but I believe that this group
>> (as noted on the members meeting this Tuesday) is giving away committer
>> privileges a little bit too easily...
>
> Different Apache projects (and subprojects thereof) have different bars. I
> am actually quite at peace with this notion.
Same here...
> I got committer status to PHP years ago merely by sending an e-mail on an
> idea I wanted to pursue. At the time, I knew nothing about cvs.
Good, so there are projects even more "loose" than tomcat dev... I didn't
know that, Rasmus might comment???
> Later I got committer status on Tomcat. I distinctly recall this being on
> the theory that any damage I might do could easily be undone.
Oh, yes, it can... That's not a problem, technically. I've never seen a
rollback in CVS happening in all those years, but it can be easily done.
> My point isn't that Tomcat should have a lower bar, but that the Tomcat
> committers should be free to determine their own bar.
I'm fine with a loose policy on giving committer status, I'm fine with the
difference (for example) between tomcat-dev and httpd-dev, but as I wouldn't
be fine if the httpd folks stopped giving committer status to anyone, and
closing the group (httpd has a very high bar, but they are not a closed
group), at the same time I am not happy with people posting one or two
times, maybe one patch, and having access to our repository...
In the middle it's good, extremes (I believe) not... And since this is the
second time in less than a week (Denis posted 14 times, the first time on
4/27 if I'm not wrong and Dan 7 times, the first time on 5/1), and it's
starting to be a little bit "extreme" and it doesn't make me feel very
comfortable...
I believe I'm the only one who removed himself from the "avail" file at one
point or another, and removed his committer status in projects I wasn't
involved in anymore (I wrote the first draft on Cocoon 2, was a committer,
not anymore since a very long time)
All I'm trying to do is raise awareness over something I (personally) am not
comfortable with, on the mailing list, where everyone can see, asking to my
fellow co-committers "what do you think"...
I CCed the members list because I know that there is interest over there (we
talked about it at the members meeting), and because I would like to hear
also from other people involved in other projects and who maybe (for sure)
have much more experience than me...
Pier
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