A true open source contributor does not have a CEO, and takes the personal judgements not what CEO or someone asked you to do.
Deepal > I was actually looking forward to contributing for this project where ever > possible but I think people have misunderstood our intentions. As requested > by my CEO, I would like to withdraw my committer request. > > > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Dulitha Wijewantha <dulit...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> +1 for the Dave Fisher's example. I believe most of the people have >> misunderstood our intentions. We were offering to help the project to grow >> and graduate faster. I am withdrawing my committer request as our CEO asked >> too. But honestly speaking - if you guys are *scared* of the *community* >> and what the *community* is - I don't believe you shouldn't mention the >> below words in the proposal - >> >> *Although we are aware of the strength of the Apache brand, we are >> primarily >> * >> *interested in the transforming power of the Apache Way to help guide* >> *Usergrid towards a more diversified and meritocratic community* >> >> >> In my humble opinion - the above line should not be a part of the proposal >> since the Apache way has always been to gather a community around the >> proposal who have shown interest towards the idea. >> >> Cheers >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 5:50 AM, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> >> wrote: >> >>> On Sep 24, 2013, at 3:19 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:23 PM, Alex Karasulu <akaras...@apache.org> >>> wrote: >>>>> ...So fill the bus with anybody who volunteers? That does not sound >>>>> meritocratic.... >>>> It's been like that for a while in the Incubator, people who sign up >>>> as initial committers for a podling usually don't have to demonstrate >>>> any merit. >>>> >>>> When the time comes to graduate the podling, it's perfectly fine to >>>> ask it to prune its list of committers and PMC members in order to >>>> keep only people who have demonstrated their committment during >>>> incubation. >>> When OpenOffice.org was brought to the Incubator there was open >>> enrollment. There were over 70 Initial Committers. I had no experience >> with >>> OpenOffice. I did have an understanding of the ASF. I could help and I >> did. >>> It was tough to have such a large list many were OpenOffice.org people >> who >>> never really adapted to the ASF. We had all these people on the PPMC. >> When >>> graduation time came we managed to reduce the PMC to 25. We left the >>> Initial Committers connected. It hasn't really been a problem. >>> >>> My point is that without the Initial Committer free for all I think that >>> AOO would not be as successful as now. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Dave >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >>> >>> >> >> -- >> *Dulitha R. Wijewantha** Software Engineer* >> Tel: 94112793140 | Mobile: 94112793140 >> dulit...@gmail.com | http://dulithawijewantha.com >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
