Rohit's evidence is that we're slowing down our best dev contributors by not nominating them for committer status.
Referring to concrete measures of performance is also a more inclusive approach to committer nomination. At least among developers. Can we not do this on a monthly or quarterly basis? It gives participants something interesting to strive towards. DL Disclaimers... My git rank is quite low, so this move would make no difference to me :) > -----Original Message----- > From: Chiradeep Vittal [mailto:chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com] > Sent: 22 February 2013 07:16 > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Animesh Chaturvedi as a committer > > > > On 2/21/13 11:01 PM, "Rohit Yadav" <bhais...@apache.org> wrote: > > >On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 6:29 AM, Alex Huang <alex.hu...@citrix.com> > wrote: > >> This was not meant for cloudstack-dev....I'm sure I will get a ton of > >>+1 replies but please refrain from replying to this. > > > >While this is the first time a proposal was made public, I had to rant, > >the toughest email I had to write, but anyway you should ignore > >it: > > > >Should we have transparency on committer proposals and votes? It's > >because I feel we're not proposing people based on pure merits. For > >example, my git rank (git shortlog -sn) and ML participating tells me > >the following folks were participating since many months, they have > >good commits and their patches only fall behind due to their review not > >getting love on time: > > 21 Sateesh Chodapuneedi > > 20 Devdeep Singh > > 16 Sanjay Tripathi > > 14 James Martin > > 12 Gavin Lee > > > >While not denying or taking away anything but I'm actually > >acknowledging and appreciating the good work Animesh did. > >Since I signed the ICLA and think I understand the apache culture [1][2]: > > > >Wearing my daily job hat: > >+1 also because follow everyone on this thread brainlessly! > > > >Wearing my opensource hippie aka apache hat: > >-1 because I think there are other folks here for months who are not > >receiving love. Animesh's work is more like ppmc folks, he could mature > >into one later, but what about people who have made good commits, their > >contributors should be made easier by providing them commit access, > >they are already committed to the community. > > > >Regards. > > > >[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiDchgAmIBw > >[2] http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html > > > >Your truly, > >Just another apache committer. > > You can rant, but I hope you didn't imply that the others on this thread were > "brainlessly following". > > Other than that, +1 to all the folks mentioned :) > -- > Chiradeep
