On Fri, 24 May 2002, Pier Fumagalli wrote: > Just one question on this. Being a committer implies that you're going to > have the right (and the due, of course, like in any good democracy) to (for > example) elect PMC members, have -also- a some sort of responsibility over > what you do, and what others do, meaning code reviews, deciding on the > future of the whole tomcat project, voting on future release plans and > such... As I said, this is not only a right, but also a responsibility. As a > committer you _should_ be doing that. > > Now, my question is, do you want _at_this_point_ to have that > responsibility? Are you interested? I don't want to sound bad, but hey > everything comes at a price :) :) :)
Most tomcat commiters review only a small ammount of the commits, that is relevant to what they know. Voting ( or beeing voted ) in PMC is optional. If you want to know the real price of becoming a commiter - it's loosing all control over the code you write, having to play flame wars and grow a thick skin. And you may spend many weekends doing work that is just thrown away. Pier is right in this aspect - and I fully agree with him that beeing a jakarta commiter comes at a much bigger price than you may think. If you want my advice - create a sourceforge account, do all the work on SSI there, and have fun. ( and maybe give access to other tomcat commiters who are interested to work on SSI ). Costin > > (I just want to show how committing to a particular codebase, sometimes, > might be different from "the whole kit'n'kaboodle that being a committer > involves")... > > > D.Scope. Must a commiter have scope to the entire project? Can't the > > access file be changed only in the o.a.c.ssi directory and the servlet > > directory? Would this address any concerns? > > Technically it would be "feasible" to implement that feature, but > administrivia would become utterly complex. > > Thank you _very_much_ for taking part to all of this :) :) :) > > Pier > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
