+1, especially if they consider to be at least somehow active. LieGrue, strub
> Am 12.09.2017 um 15:04 schrieb Michael Nascimento <mist...@gmail.com>: > > If they've cleaned up the file and prepared the ZIP, I'd say they've > contributed to the initial push, even though another person actually made > it. So I think that's their contribution, as authors, and the committer > that actually pushed the sources could propose them as committers, since he > can attest their involvement in that task, which gives them enough merit to > be committers. > > Regards, > Michael > > On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Daniel Gruno <humbed...@apache.org> wrote: > >> On 09/12/2017 02:56 PM, Geertjan Wielenga wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Since those who will be doing the relicensing, i.e., doing the actual >>> physical replacing of license headers to Apache, need to come from the >>> donating organization, i.e., from Oracle -- we have a special situation >> to >>> deal with: Oracle is building up a team of devs dedicated to Apache >>> NetBeans development. Right now, there are three members of this team, >> and >>> it will grow in the coming months to around 8. >>> >>> The three that are there right now are listed in the Oracle CCLA. >> However, >>> they were not there at the time that we put together the Apache NetBeans >>> Incubator proposal, so they're not part of the initial list of >> committers. >>> Neither do they yet have any visible contributions to Apache NetBeans -- >>> though. on the other hand, they have heaps of experience over the past >> year >>> and a lot of commitment, since they were the ones that cleaned up the >> code >>> and prepared the ZIP files for donation to Apache. >>> >>> In short, we'd like them to do the changes of the license headers, though >>> we can't go down the normal route where they'd first prove their value to >>> the Apache NetBeans project, since the project is too new and their >>> involvement has been behind the scenes. >>> >>> Aside from doing the changes of the license headers, they'll be working >> on >>> an ongoing basis on Apache NetBeans, especially in the JavaScript area, >> so >>> this will not be a 'once off' thing. >>> >>> Their names are Arunava Sinha, Reema Taneja, and Vikas Prabhakar. >>> >>> As a community, what do we think the right process should be here? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Gj >>> >> >> For a podling, things are a bit more lax. >> What we essentially need is a vote on each candidate on the private >> list. Once we have sufficient votes and 72h has passed, they can be >> formally invited as committers. If there is lazy consensus that we >> should invite them, you can proceed with a vote thread for each >> committer in spe. >> >> Normally, a committer would have to prove themselves worthy of the >> 'commit bit', but I think we can be more relaxed about this at the very >> beginning? >> .
