Sadly, I think RTC is shifting Geronimo from being a meritocracy to being a bureaucracy.
I completely agree with this statement.
And only things get done if you have friends in the PMC. I've seen several folks say RTC "Has been as success", and while yes, it has increased communicatio, If you look back and try to compare what's been committed to SVN against what has passed in RTC with 3 PMC votes I'm sure you'll be hard pressed to find alot of examples of "success".
And this too.
I think RTC would be fine IF current implementation were slightly tweaked to only require: 3 1+ from committers saying, yeah I think that patch is a good idea. Notice the requirement for testing the patch is gone. The requirement or PMC member is gone. This would still generate all the discussion that we are seeing on the lists, but now you at least have CHANCE of moving forward with a change.
And I completely agree with this too. --jason
