Hi, On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Filip Maj <f...@adobe.com> wrote: > I'm confused as to why we have to have *any* barriers to entry, especially > if the community votes on committership anyways. > > I would be a fan of a "if x people vote +1, and no one voted -1, let the > person in" mentality. > > What downsides does this approach pose?
It should be fine as long as the same criteria is applied to all members of the community. We don't want a situation where only one of two otherwise identical community members gets nominated and voted in while the other is either not nominated in the first place or rejected with a -1 vote. Having the expected level of contribution (even if it's just "show up on the mailing list and ask to be given commit access") written down somewhere as Ross suggested helps prevent this problem. Note also that by granting someone membership in the (P)PMC, you also give them veto power [1] over all code changes. That's not necessarily a problem, just something to take in to account when inviting new people. [1] http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html#Veto BR, Jukka Zitting
