On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Emmanuel Lecharny <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/27/11 4:08 PM, Roger Schildmeijer wrote: >> >> On Jul 27, 2011, at 3:53 PM, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Emmanuel Lecharny<[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 7/27/11 3:31 PM, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote: >>>>> >>>>> It's just a matter to send a mail with the ICLA attached (I guess it >>>>> should >>>>> be a scan or a picture of the ICLA with the written signature). >>> >>> It is not about how much time it takes to scan an ICLA and send it :). >>> He was not in the initial list of committers and as the [VOTE] has >>> been accepted and closed and the podling has started I am afraid that >>> he should gain credits to become a committer. >> >> Not sure I follow why he should? (I have no doubt in Michele and if he >> continues to support deft the way he is currently doing he will probably >> become a committer one day.) > > I think that what Mohammad thinks is that it's not because you have provided > a patch once before the project has been accepted at Apache that you should > be granted commit access. > > The initial members of the project, listed in the proposal, are natural > committers. Any other should be voted by the PPMC (and approuved by the > IPMC), thus must gain access through merit. This is true for new > contributors, but also for those who contributed before. > > The rational for this rule is that if you didn't include them in the > proposal, then they haven't been 'committed' enough to the project. > > See http://incubator.apache.org/guides/mentor.html#Authorize+Committers. > > Anyway, I think that what is important here is to found the PPMC, as they > will rule the project when it will get out of incubator. You are the guy who > make this project successful - or not :-) -, and it's also a part of the > process.
That is *exactly* what I mean, I apologize if I was not clear enough :). I already took the steps to activate the PPMC :). > > > > -- > Regards, > Cordialement, > Emmanuel Lécharny > www.iktek.com > > -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Author of (WebSphere Application Server Community Edition 2.0 User Guide) http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247585.html - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mnour - Blog: http://tadabborat.blogspot.com ---- "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving" - Albert Einstein "Writing clean code is what you must do in order to call yourself a professional. There is no reasonable excuse for doing anything less than your best." - Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship "Stay hungry, stay foolish." - Steve Jobs
