+1 on a steady dedication period. The risk of people leaving stale projects behind them is otherwise much bigger.
/peter G: neubauer.peter S: peter.neubauer P: +46 704 106975 L: http://www.linkedin.com/in/neubauer T: @peterneubauer Open Data - @mapillary Open Source - @neo4j Open Future - @coderdojo On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 9:59 PM, Marko Rodriguez <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I don't think Committer == PPMC. We have had issues in the past which we dub > "commit and split." People get so excited about TinkerPop, have their boss > supporting them to work on it, do all these features, make lots of promises, > and then like a ghost….nothing…. "hello, can you finish?… can you update?…" > nothing…. > > I think a PPMC is someone who has shown at least 1+ years of steady > dedication to TinkerPop and can demonstrate that they are doing this beyond > the fleeting moments of "their job." > > My thoughts, > Marko. > > http://markorodriguez.com > > On Mar 6, 2015, at 12:20 PM, Hadrian Zbarcea <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In general, from painful experience, I do encourage distinguishing between >> the two. I agree with David that right now it's less of an issue. My rule of >> thumb is: >> >> 1. if you trust one with the code: vote him as a committer >> 2. if you trust one with shepherding the community: vote him a (P)PMC member. >> >> Usually there is some extra mentoring needed to jump from 1. to 2. In your >> case, Daniel seems to be ready for PPMC, I believe both is best. >> >> My $0.02, >> Hadrian >> >> >> On 03/06/2015 02:05 PM, David Nalley wrote: >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> I wanted to bring up this discussion. It may have already been >>> discussed, but I couldn't find a record of it in a brief search. >>> >>> Currently all committers are also PPMC members, but if/when we go >>> about adding contributors, do we want to make a distinction between >>> committers and PPMC members? >>> >>> Many large projects do make a distinction; it allows them to give >>> commit access easier. For a podling the only real addition you get by >>> being a PPMC member is being added to the private list and having a >>> say on new committers/PPMC members. Once you graduate you get binding >>> votes on releases, as well as more certain control over the direction >>> of the project. >>> >>> This project is relatively small in terms of numbers of committers at >>> this point, so I'd tend to lean towards committers being PPMC members >>> by default. >>> >>> Thoughts, comments, flames? >>> >>> --David >>> >
