On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 9:14 AM Allen Wittenauer <[email protected]> wrote:
> ... > Perfectly valid code written by committers is regularly ignored > because the rest of the committers are too focused on vendor-driven goals. > Since those vendor driven goals are the only patches getting in and getting > reviewed, coworkers get commit and PMC bits at a rate significantly faster > than non-coworkers. In the end, only the vendors survive and what was a > diverse community dies. [.. and to put an ASF spin on it: it feels > sanctioned by the ASF board who really doesn’t understand what is happening > because they just see new faces being added to the rolls, not being told > that ~90% of these people work for 2-3 companies. Since no one goes > emeritus, the numbers/diversity looks more impressive than it really is: > it’s not unusual for not-coworkers to basically disappear after getting PMC > or even committer.] > > Succinctly stated. > > 3) Everyone has a bad day. I totally identify with committership being a > > sign of "I trust you" to project participants. But everyone has one of > > those days where you're in a rush either because of work or life. Having > > even a cursory additional set of eyes on things markedly increases the > > quality of the overall code base over a long enough time line (at least > in > > my experience contributing to open source projects). So for me, the trust > > is largely "to follow the rules" and "to provide feedback in reviews”. > > Definitely agree here. I think that’s why I’m favoring Lazy > Consensus over CTR as well. > > LC is better than RTC when no R (unfortuantely). Agree should be some lag. Sean's 72hours+ sounds good. S > > That said, if I'm going to give CTR another try anywhere I'd rather it > > be here in Apache Yetus. So please consider my -0 changed to +1. > > > Thanks Sean! > >
