My $0.02:
I believe that there have been several other occasions in the Axis project in particular where committers were voted in purely on interest (don't recall exact details, but can look). We went through a period where almost all the people involved in the initial project went away and we were rather desperate for new blood, and so voted in people with somewhat less than the usual "proving ground" period. Perhaps we now have enough critical mass to be more selective, but I'm also kind of psyched to see more people from places other than Macromedia and IBM working on the project.... Note also that the Sonic guys *did* contribute a JMS transport, and a well-thought-out document about future evolution towards true asynchronous processing. That's more than we've seen from some others before their votes, IIRC. I'm still pretty much +0 on doing this right now, but it would be handy to have them able to maintain the JMS stuff, and I expect they'll contribute some very valuable stuff as they continue to work with James and the team to move Axis towards a better asynch architecture. I think they'll definitely be committers sometime in the not-too-distant future anyway, and I would rather they feel at home and welcome since it came up now. --Glen > -----Original Message----- > From: Sanjiva Weerawarana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 9:26 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: user id request > > > With all due respects to everyone concerned, I would like > to express my -1 for this mode of adding committers. > > This is not my understanding how Apache works: you do the > work first and *then* you become a committer. I don't know > Jamie or David or Richard, so this is in no way personal, > but AFAIK their intent to work on something does not give > them the priviledge of committership. > > If Sam or Dims or any such PMC (or board) type person still > thinks this is an acceptable way then I automatically withdraw > my opposition. > > Sanjiva. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Davanum Srinivas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 11:10 PM > Subject: Re: user id request > > > > James, > > AFAIK (see > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103185126500005&r=1&w=2) there > was a VOTE only for Dave > > Chappell AND NOT for Jaime or Richard. Please initiate a > separate VOTE for > those two. > > > > root, > > Please setup id's for Dave ONLY at this time. > > > > Thanks, > > dims (XML-PMC) > > > > --- James M Snell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Can you please set up id's for the following people.... > > > > > > Dave Chappell [EMAIL PROTECTED] dchappell > > > Jaime Meritt [EMAIL PROTECTED] jmeritt > > > Richard Chung [EMAIL PROTECTED] rchung > > > > > > Here's the breakdown on the votes on axis-dev > > > > > > +1 ==> 3 > > > +0 ==> 2 > > > -1 ==> 0 > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > - James Snell > > > IBM Emerging Technologies > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > (559) 587-1233 (office) > > > (700) 544-9035 (t/l) > > > Programming Web Services With SOAP > > > O'Reilly & Associates, ISBN 0596000952 > > > > > > Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. > > > Do not be terrified, do not be discouraged, for the Lord your > > > God will be with you whereever you go. - Joshua 1:9 > > > > > > ===== > > Davanum Srinivas - http://xml.apache.org/~dims/ > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! News - Today's headlines > > http://news.yahoo.com >
