On Jan 15, 2008 4:04 AM, Antonio Petrelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are not obliged to work on Struts, we can go away at any time, and we > have not deadlines. So, the *forced obligation* of support seems like a > nonsense to me.
Please note that the original post cites the top-level ASF documentation which suggests: "The tacit implications of voting should be spelt out in the community's guidelines. However, in no case may someone's vote be considered invalid if the implied commitment doesn't appear to be met;a vote is a formal expression of opinion, not of commitment." Put another way: is a binding GA vote also asking, "In your opinion, will you be able to support the release?" I suppose one solution would be add that second "proposition" to the quality votes, just so we could also have a poll of people who intend to do the work. Here's the underlying problem: We have over fifty outstanding patches. We have had over fifty outstanding patches for months nows. As a PMC member, I would like to know who intends to be available to help apply patches in 2008. Not "fix" bugs, but simply review and apply patches. Several committers do spend a lot of time on the mailing lists, and user-to-ouser support is an important contribution. Several committers also spend a lot of time writing new code. Again, a critical contribution. But we also need people who will apply patches. If we don't have these people, then, frankly, I personally don't see the point in continuing to build releases. -Ted. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
