On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Greg Stein wrote: | Your points about Jon's contributions are all absolutely true. I agree. But | commit access is not a simple, "wow. great code. give him commit privs." | | Suffice it to say that this issue is quite a bit more complex than that, | thus the reason it took a while to reach some kind of conclusion. There are | way too many people involved (between the httpd and apr PMCs and the board) | for this to be about any individual's issues. It is more than that (internal | issues, and in regards to E-K and Jon), and it would be inappropriate for a | public discussion, which is why it wasn't. | | The ASF has a responsibility towards the community. And a lot of us feel | very strongly about that. However, that also means there are different views | on how to express and act on that responsibility. Sometimes, things just | aren't so easy...
It would be nice if the ASF policies regarding code donations (be it a 2-line patch or a whole suite such as E-K) were posted publicly. The policy page can cover the process for accepting, privelages (if any) that may result, as well as the general policy on being granted developer commit access to the repository. >From reading the responses to this whole thread, it appears as if the ASF stance has taken many by suprise and caused fustration. If the ASF made it publicly known through stated policies (and long-winded responses in a email thread don't count) such predicaments can be avoided in the future. The below URLs would be good places to add this obviously important info to: http://www.apache.org/foundation/contributing.html http://httpd.apache.org/dev/ /dale
