--- Scott Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 04:50:10PM -0700, Greg Stein > wrote:
[...] > > > Note the contrast with the "all j-c committers > have voting rights on all j-c > > components." I do not believe that works, and will > not vote-for/support such > > a model for the Apache Commons. I think the model > will be multiple > > components within the Commons, with associated > groups of committers and > > voters. > > The 'intent' (IMHO, of course) of the j-c commit > model, was that everyone had avail access to all > code, but you had to add yourself as a member of the > project before you committed to it. This was > ultimately end run where people would just add > themselves and then veto, but I think the general > idea of gaining access to a project is a good idea. > > The most useful thing here is that since j-c has so > many smaller projects (in terms of code size), that > anyone willing to review and commit a patch is a > good thing. If you don't know much about the > component, you don't commit the patch, but if you > have a good idea about, but just not the bandwidth > to completly participate, commit the patch. Some > may disagree with this, but I am a firm beleiver, as > the codebase size approaches zero. > I'm also not necessarily attached to the free voting part of j-c except insofar as it doesn't restrict people from contrtibuting to all components without calling some sort of karma vote. The problem is where to draw the line. Someone who edits a single javadoc shouldn't vote, but someone who cleans up all the documentation should. Someone who fixes a typo in an excecption shouldn't, someone who fixes exception handling should. Someone who fixes a single significant bug should, shouldn't, who knows? It's a difficult issue on which we punted at j-c, erring on the side of inclusion. If you want to take it on, then find that magic formula to figure out when a contributor "counts". I'm not saying it can't be done, but make sure you make an informed choice. And be aware that someone who is truly petty will find a way to subvert any rule you formulate. That's why we chose to just trust people's judgement. - Morgan ===== Morgan Delagrange http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs http://jakarta.apache.org/commons http://axion.tigris.org http://jakarta.apache.org/watchdog __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/
