Whoops I hit send too fast as I wanted to address one more issue in this...
This is truly not an issue of support. All of this donated code has not only my full support, but I would like the opportunity to help out as well...so support from my perspective is there at 150%. Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Davanum Srinivas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 7:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Is it a mountain? (Re: Donation of Admin Console- request for help) I hardly knew any of you...yet i supported as much as i could even during the early stages. same thing am doing with beehive/wsrp4j/muse (anything that as a ws component whether they are destined for ws pmc or not). remember, this is an open-source project!!!!!!! what is it that you are afraid of? (that a few technical -1's on code checkin would not handle?) -- dims On 7/12/05, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jul 12, 2005, at 5:47 PM, Jeff Genender wrote: > > > > Davanum Srinivas wrote: > > > >> +1 to accept both the console and trifork code. Let Geir worry > >> +about > >> paperwork. (Ask for a software grant from both companies such that > >> we can place the code in our SVN.) > >> > > > > +1 > > > >> +1 to accept new folks from these contrib as "regular" committers > >> +(we > >> can have a public vote once we get list of people from these 2 > >> companies) > >> > > > > -1. Thats not fair to the community. I would ACL it...let them > > prove themselves individually before being given the keys to the > > car. This is only fair to all the other folks who had to prove > > their commitment to community. > > Let me ask a question - how do you define and measure commitment? > > Clearly, we have traditionally used "demonstrated interest in the > project" as a yardstick, as well as "demonstrated contribution to the > project"? That's really what we're concerned about, right? > > I think that people can do this in different ways. David Jencks > throws tons of time at code. I throw tons of time at less technical, > and more at community, administrative and legal issues. > > Would it be sufficient for someone to take software that they created, > maybe even built a business on, and not only offered to donate with no > strings attached to the project for us to do with as we wish, but also > offered an even more precious commodity, interested and dedicated > people to work on it, to ask for a place at the table? > > geir > > -- > Geir Magnusson Jr +1-203-665-6437 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- Davanum Srinivas -http://blogs.cocoondev.org/dims/
