On Nov 22, 2007 7:09 PM, Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 20, 2007 9:14 PM, Eelco Hillenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I would agree with reviewing committers at graduation, but how do we > > > implement that? > > > > I would say that this depends on the judgment of the mentors, and it > > is probably more important to evaluate the role they would be playing > > in the project once it is over to Apache, than what happened before > > entering incubation. > > > > > Would you kick out people during graduation, if they don't show > > > sufficient merit? > > > > I don't think you can make rules for that. Imho it's simple. The > > project has to prove it can behave the Apache way, and the project's > > members are responsible for this. People not functioning well in a > > project can be a reason to reject incubation, so the members better > > make sure that doesn't happen. > > > > > Or re-elect all committers before graduation? > > > > That might be a good idea actually. > > Ask people to self nominate - I imagine often inactive commiters won't > put themselves forward, removing any issue. Then maybe a review of the > list by the the mentors and proposed PMC Chair. If there are issues it > can be discussed in the community and if theres disagreement then > vote. I imagine most of the time it won't come to voting. > > Niall >
That sounds reasonable but is it ok to do that? Its quite hard to remove a committer from a real Apache project, are incubating committers different and its ok to just ask who wants to be included at graduation? ...ant
