Yes, exactly. I totally agree. :-) It's been fantastic working with you all.
Gj On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 8:34 PM, Greg Trasuk <tras...@stratuscom.com> wrote: > > Well, one problem with the Incubator is this: we all have opinions, but > it’s sometimes hard to nail down policy. The good news is, we’re all nice > people and graciously change our opinions when presented with better > information. > > Cheers, > > Greg Trasuk > > > On Sep 12, 2017, at 2:30 PM, Geertjan Wielenga < > geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > It seems not. That's what Ate said and then reversed on that. > > > > Gj > > > > On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 8:28 PM, Greg Trasuk <tras...@stratuscom.com> > wrote: > > > >> > >>> On Sep 12, 2017, at 2:12 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz < > bdelacre...@apache.org> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 10:28 AM, Attila Kelemen > >>> <attila.keleme...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>> ...If someone gets hired, I don't see the point of voting. I think a > >> simple > >>>> introduction would be enough... > >>> > >>> Huh, no that's not how Apache projects work! Being hired by some > >>> organization does not give you the right to join one of our projects. > >>> > >>> We're discussing a special case here, dropping the "merit must be > >>> demonstrated here" criterion for a few people because this podling is > >>> just starting and expanding the list of initial committers still makes > >>> sense at this stage. > >>> > >>> -Bertrand > >> > >> It may or may not apply in this case (IMO opinion Bertrand is quite > >> correct that this is a special case), but I’m curious: Does someone > >> actually need to be a committer to make these changes? They could be > done > >> in a local Git repo, then pushed to the Apache repo by someone who “is” > a > >> committer. In other words, could the new folks do the changes, and then > >> someone like Geertjan do the push to the NetBeans repo at Apache? The > new > >> people would of course very quickly demonstrate community involvement, > and > >> then the community would have plenty of evidence to grant committership. > >> Maybe or maybe not PMC membership, but that’s up to the community. > >> > >> Thoughts? > >> > >> Greg Trasuk > >> > >> > >
