+1 Amen !!!
On 3/22/06, Sanjiva Weerawarana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 16:16 +0530, Soumadeep wrote: > > [Soumadeep] An open source community doesn't mean that it's doesn't share > > any time lines or responsibilities, I completely disagree with your > > statement as above > > No matter what your other obligation may be if you take a responsibility > > being a committer you should see to it that it's done ASAP. I thing the > > moderator/release manager should take note of this. Someone has to be > > answerable no matter what. As community members we all are answerable. > > I can imagine how frustrating this must be for you .. but your statement > is not true. As community members we are responsible to be good > community members, but as volunteer members of the community none of us > answer to anyone. Now, if someone is employed by a company which is > allocating work time to work on an ASF project then they are answerable > to the company's mgmt (presumably!), but still not to the community. > > ASF communities do not have moderators or release managers. We vote in a > release manager for the duration of a release but for every day > operations we work off a meritocracy. As such there's no hierarchy here; > the person on the other side can be a 12 year old kid or a 80 year old > grandma and it makes no difference. If they can program (or document or > do Web design or any of the other thousand things that must be done to > keep ASF projects running) they are welcome here no matter what level of > time they can commit. > > Welcome to the Apache Way ;-). > > Sanjiva. > >
