On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Ross Gardler <rgard...@opendirective.com> wrote: > On 21 August 2012 17:02, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Ross Gardler >> <rgard...@opendirective.com> wrote: >>> Further to Bertrand comment it's not the PMC that is important but the >>> people doing stuff. >>> >>> I'd disagree with the assertion "any other PMC", many of the PMCs I work >>> with don't have such list (of course it's easily available via foundation >>> pages if people want it). >> >> Well, if I revised that to 'some' I suppose there would be no argument > > Not from me :-) > >> -- but -- better yet -- many PMCs have some concept of 'the team' in >> their web presence . Should comdev? Not a rhetorical question; I could >> see arguments either way. > > Like you I'm willing to listen to new arguments. This comes up every > time I start mentoring a new project and I am yet to see a good > argument for publicly stating "PMC member X is more important than > contributor Y" (which is what I believe such "team pages" do). > Consider that PMC Member X may be inactive and contributor Y may be > elected a PMC member in a couple of weeks. There are, as you say, > arguments both ways, for me the ones saying everyone is equal always > win out. > > A more concrete example. The majority of work for this PMC is GSoC. We > have two admins each year and around 40 mentors appointed (and maybe > another 40 who don't get a student). In terms of hours of effort > mentors work harder but typically they will not be ComDev PMC members. > In terms of having to drop everything to solve a specific problem > quickly, or meet tight deadlines, admins work much harder. Personally > I'd rather just applaud everyone equally than try and say one is more > deserving of public credit than another. > > Maybe I'm too much of an old hippie though ;-)
Whoops. I'm really *not* arguing for a PMC list. I'd be happy with any community list. I won't even make an extended issue if someone offers a reason to have *no* list. > > Ross > > Ross > >> >>> >>> From a mobile device - forgive errors and terseness >>> On Aug 21, 2012 2:47 PM, "Bertrand Delacretaz" <bdelacre...@apache.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> > Any particular reason why the comdev web page doesn't include a list >>>> > of the comdev PMC members, as any other PMC's page would? >>>> >>>> The problem with those lists is that they can easily get out of sync, >>>> it might be safer to link to >>>> http://people.apache.org/committers-by-project.html#comdev-pmc >>>> >>>> -Bertrand >>>> > > > > -- > Ross Gardler (@rgardler) > Programme Leader (Open Development) > OpenDirective http://opendirective.com
