Jeff Turner wrote:
I while ago I heard something that inspired me a lot: it used to be that the US National Science Foundation funded "people" and not "projects". I want to use the same pattern here.On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 08:52:23PM +0100, Steven Noels wrote:Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:I hereby propose Jeff Turner for cocoon committership. He is one of the major forces behind Forrest and has been proposing important patches and features addition to the main Cocoon repository.
Wohoo! :) Thanks for the nomination, it is an honour.David & I asked some time ago, but he prefered keeping low-profile at that time. But I'm sure he won't refuse the offer if it comes from you :-)
Well obviously, David and Steven.. pfft, they're not nearly as good as Stefano ;) No, only joking.. in fact David ought to be everyone's Cocoon role-model, doing unglamorous but essential things like improving docs and validation. But I digress.. As I said then, Forrest will always be my main focus. I want it to be Cocoon's killer app: dead-simple site generation, filling the vast low- to medium-complexity publishing niche that Cocoon currently misses. If you all don't mind this user-centric perspective and associated low 'commit rate', then I'd count it an honour to be a committer, and do what I can to help.
That means, as long as I trust a committer, I don't *care* what he wants to focus on. I don't care where he wants to take the project, as long as he plays nicely with the rest of the community (and you have a proven record of that, which is what really makes me confortable about giving you commit access more than anything else)
In short, you don't have to tell us what is your focus or even if your focus changes overtime (mine does continously), we want to sponsor "you" not what you are interested in right now. Also because your interests might change in the future, but your attitude toward open collaboration and friendly consensus reaching is very unlikely to.
Of course, this is not only related to you, but to everybody else I ever proposed for committership or voted yes on them... which, in fact, counts for everybody since, interesting enough, this project *never* received a -1 on an individual proposed for commit access.
Personal trust, early-on delegation of responsability and respected openmindness: I think that's all it takes to create a healthy open development community.
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Stefano Mazzocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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