Re: Proposal for Forrest-Cocoon-Lenya commit access

2005-09-03 Thread David Crossley
Antonio Gallardo wrote: Thanks to David for the overview. IMO we should modularize this whole discusion in different topics. The lenght of the thread scream for SoC. :-) Thank to Thorsten that kindly shared with the rest of us (that are not participating on lenya-dev) the discussion

Re: Proposal for Forrest-Cocoon-Lenya commit access

2005-09-03 Thread Tim Williams
On 9/3/05, David Crossley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: addi wrote: Ok, I am not a PMC member nor committer so ignore/listen as you like. That makes no difference. You are a community member and we each listen to each other. By the way, when it comes time to vote on this topic, then please do:

Re: Proposal for Forrest-Cocoon-Lenya commit access

2005-09-03 Thread David Crossley
Tim Williams wrote: David Crossley wrote: addi wrote: Ok, I am not a PMC member nor committer so ignore/listen as you like. That makes no difference. You are a community member and we each listen to each other. By the way, when it comes time to vote on this topic, then please do:

Re: Proposal for Forrest-Cocoon-Lenya commit access

2005-09-02 Thread David Crossley
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Let's not be driven by fear, but by opportunity... and let's look at history. Our open access to Cocoon and Lenya has never given us issues. By the way, Lenya do not currently have access to our SVN, only Cocoon. Instead we have gained Antonio and Unico's

Re: Proposal for Forrest-Cocoon-Lenya commit access

2005-09-02 Thread Tim Williams
On 9/2/05, David Crossley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Let's not be driven by fear, but by opportunity... and let's look at history. Our open access to Cocoon and Lenya has never given us issues. By the way, Lenya do not currently have access to our SVN, only

Re: Proposal for Forrest-Cocoon-Lenya commit access

2005-09-02 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Tim Williams wrote: ... I can only imagine that for an existing committer on another project, the bar would likely be set pretty low for a committership offer anyway -- so asking them to add a JIRA issue and and contribute a patch to determine whether they're truly committed to forrest or

Re: Proposal for Forrest-Cocoon-Lenya commit access

2005-09-02 Thread Thorsten Scherler
On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 12:44 -0400, Tim Williams wrote: I don't understand why Lenya for instance, votes me a committer on their project. You are *not* a committer to lenya! Nobody voted you in. You have write access to the code base which is different. IMO the subject is not reflecting this (I

Re: Proposal for Forrest-Cocoon-Lenya commit access

2005-09-02 Thread Tim Williams
On 9/2/05, Thorsten Scherler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 12:44 -0400, Tim Williams wrote: I don't understand why Lenya for instance, votes me a committer on their project. You are *not* a committer to lenya! Nobody voted you in. You have write access to the code base

Re: Proposal for Forrest-Cocoon-Lenya commit access

2005-09-02 Thread David Crossley
Tim Williams wrote: Thorsten Scherler wrote: Tim Williams wrote: I don't understand why Lenya for instance, votes me a committer on their project. You are *not* a committer to lenya! Nobody voted you in. You have write access to the code base which is different. IMO the subject is

Re: Proposal for Forrest-Cocoon-Lenya commit access

2005-09-02 Thread David Crossley
Tim Williams wrote: David Crossley wrote: Anyway, i just want to ensure that we all, especially our new PMC members, understand the implications. This new PMC member doesn't see the value in it as I attempted to express in my earlier mail on this topic. I don't believe in the field

Re: Proposal for Forrest-Cocoon-Lenya commit access

2005-09-02 Thread Thorsten Scherler
On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 10:18 +1000, David Crossley wrote: ... As i said earlier in this thread, this is not the normal practise. It is a new experiment between the Cocoon-based projects. Not so new after all for lenya/cocoon. I (and all other initial lenya committer) got 2003 this rights. Every

Re: Proposal for Forrest-Cocoon-Lenya commit access

2005-09-02 Thread David Crossley
Thorsten Scherler wrote: David Crossley wrote: ... As i said earlier in this thread, this is not the normal practise. It is a new experiment between the Cocoon-based projects. Not so new after all for lenya/cocoon. I (and all other initial lenya committer) got 2003 this rights. Still

Re: Proposal for Forrest-Cocoon-Lenya commit access

2005-09-02 Thread addi
Ok, I am not a PMC member nor committer so ignore/listen as you like. Also if I seem riled up, please take my general attitude with a grain of salt as Katrina/lack of response to has gotten me rather upset lately. I do not mean to offend at all. On Friday September 02 2005 8:42 pm, David

Re: Proposal for Forrest-Cocoon-Lenya commit access

2005-09-02 Thread David Crossley
addi wrote: Ok, I am not a PMC member nor committer so ignore/listen as you like. That makes no difference. You are a community member and we each listen to each other. By the way, when it comes time to vote on this topic, then please do: http://forrest.apache.org/guidelines.html#decision

Re: Proposal for Forrest-Cocoon-Lenya commit access

2005-09-02 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Hi: Thanks to David for the overview. IMO we should modularize this whole discusion in different topics. The lenght of the thread scream for SoC. :-) Thank to Thorsten that kindly shared with the rest of us (that are not participating on lenya-dev) the discussion about this topic in the

Proposal for Forrest-Cocoon-Lenya commit access

2005-09-01 Thread David Crossley
There have been various discussions about this topic, some of them on various PMC mailing lists. There is no need for it to be private, so now it is in the open. The developer community needs to understand the background and the related issues. Private discussions do not enable the community to be

Re: Proposal for Forrest-Cocoon-Lenya commit access

2005-09-01 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
David Crossley wrote: ... The main effect that i see is that we would be opening up the Forrest repository to people that we do not know and are not familiar with. Is everyone happy with that. Yes. Being Apache committers they should and will behave with all the needed respect to our

Re: Proposal for Forrest-Cocoon-Lenya commit access

2005-09-01 Thread David Crossley
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: David Crossley wrote: ... The main effect that i see is that we would be opening up the Forrest repository to people that we do not know and are not familiar with. Is everyone happy with that. Yes. Being Apache committers they should and will behave with

Re: Proposal for Forrest-Cocoon-Lenya commit access

2005-09-01 Thread Ross Gardler
David Crossley wrote: Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: David Crossley wrote: ... The main effect that i see is that we would be opening up the Forrest repository to people that we do not know and are not familiar with. Is everyone happy with that. Yes. Being Apache committers they should and

Re: Proposal for Forrest-Cocoon-Lenya commit access

2005-09-01 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
David Crossley wrote: Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: ... I would propose that commit access is given to all Apache committers; I don't see why Lenya or Cocoon committers have more merit than any other at Apache. I would like to remind all that Gump has the same pattern of access, and nobody screwed

Re: Proposal for Forrest-Cocoon-Lenya commit access

2005-09-01 Thread Tim Williams
Since I've learned most of what I know from reading words from you guys, it surprises me that I come to a different conclusion. As I understand it, committership is based on merit and one earns merit only *after* consistently making good contributions demonstrating that they've earned it. I

Re: Proposal for Forrest-Cocoon-Lenya commit access

2005-09-01 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Tim Williams wrote: ... So are we now saying that merit applies across the ASF? In a sense, WRT trust, IMO, yes. That just doesn't make sense to me given the diversity of projects here. I mean my own interpretation is that there are two parts to merit: 1) Technical and 2)

Re: Proposal for Forrest-Cocoon-Lenya commit access

2005-09-01 Thread Ross Gardler
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Tim Williams wrote: ... So are we now saying that merit applies across the ASF? In a sense, WRT trust, IMO, yes. +1, with respect to trust. If someone in Apache trusts them, that is good enough for me. With respect to having the *technical* skills to