I personally believe in keeping the bar low for committership and keeping the bar high for membership.
I believe that this helps us getting more people inside the foundation (potential members) but keeps the real powers of the foundation heavily filtered and therefore highly focused on what it means to be a member.
Stefano's insightful post got me carried away to run some stats on members & projects: http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/archives/001008.html
Please comment if you care, but keep the thread on community (or cocoon-dev). I'd love to hear your opinion.
Cheers,
</Steven> -- Steven Noels http://outerthought.org/ Outerthought - Open Source, Java & XML Competence Support Center Read my weblog at http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/ stevenn at outerthought.org stevenn at apache.org