On 21 October 2015 at 10:36, Justin Mclean <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Moving to dev list. > > > just had a second look at the homepage, it would be nice (and I think > correct) to add ppmc, so that the table shows > > mentors > > ppmc > > committers > > I was holding off until we had all of the Apache ids but I'll go ahead > and add the names. The Apache ids can be added later. > > > remark ppmc != committers. I don’t think we have discussed who is ppmc > (sorry if I missed a discussion). > > Usually in incubation from my (limited) experience the initial committer > list == initial ppmc list. But we can leave it up to each individual. > > The responsibilities are spelt out here: > Guide for new committers [1] > Guide for (P)PMC members [2] > > Does anyone not want to be on the PPMC and just a committer? > Given my history with incubator, I believe it is better for the project if I remain an ordinary committer at least for now. I do not want to take part in potential discussions about voting etc. > The main practical difference is access to the private mailing list (which > should have only a small amount of traffic) and votes being binding on > incubator releases. We need a minimum of 3 PPMC members to be a viable > project. > > We can of course vote any committer who make contributions into the PMC at > a later date (assuming they accept). A few projects have no difference > between committers and PMC members. On one project I asked to be on the > initial committer list, was declined (as there were too many on the list > already), but my contributions quickly made me a committer and a PPMC > member. > > I learned a hard lesson, that having PPMC == Committers can break a community if not being careful (which we weren´t). Some people do a wonderful job as committers, but act quite differently when they become PPMC. If the project prefers to have PPMC == Committers then I will not try to hinder it. rgds jan i. > Thanks, > Justin > > 1. http://www.apache.org/dev/new-committers-guide.html > 2. http://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html
