Hi Michael,
[resent with the good adress]
Michael Meeks wrote:
> Hi Sophie,
>
> On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 13:22 +0200, sophie gautier wrote:
>> I agree with Michael for more openness, what is disturbing me is
this relying on cvs commit. Lot of contributing members are not
committers to cvs and I even don't know how this metric could be
evaluated.
>
> Sure :-) CVS commit is somewhat lame; people submit patches, and
so on.
> Ultimately, I don't suggest exclusively CVS commit - clearly the NLCs
> have their own mechanisms for electing representatives (I believe), and
> of course the community representative is elected by everyone.
>
> Having said that, a hard metric that provides a good list of actual,
> active developers is simple to construct from the commit records: it can
> easily be extended by special dispensation from a small membership
> review committee [ cf. GNOME eg. ].
Yes, but the GNOME process seems a bit heavy to me. This is also why I
claim for some times now (but without providing a solution, I admit ;)
that we miss a tool to automate the track/display of commits or other
contributions in our project.
>
>>> - I don't like to have the voting scheme written in the charter -
>> this can go to the bylaws (and therefore could be more easily adopted
>> or modified)
>
> Fair enough; but choosing a fair scheme - eg. STV rather than first
> past the post is a key part of my proposal.
>
>> That leave also a large part of the contributors out of the scheme
(I'm thinking about QA members or Documentation members for example),
but it will be more open than at the moment.
>
> Yep; so of course QA and Documentation are important, and need
> including - Documentation can presumably be measured in some concrete
> way, and QA similarly - perhaps by number of duplicates marked, or bugs
> filed or somesuch ? Perhaps even carving out a single seat specific to
> these guys is a good plan.
There are a lot of contributions out of those two projects I named.
Andre, in his last proposal made two categories (one for core
development, another one for all those projects that are needed to
deliver a version) and I find it well representative of the development
process in our community.
Kind regards
Sophie
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