How do we go about changing the Incubator Proposal Guide so that the rules around adding new committers to a podling at proposal time? As much fun as a good email thread can be, we don't want to have to relive the same ones over and over.
Can we come up with a consensus view and get it into the guide here? http://incubator.apache.org/guides/proposal.html#template-initial-committers Here's what I think we should add: After a proposal is submitted to the incubator but before a vote is called the proposing community may choose to add additional committers who ask to be committers or may chose to defer adding new committers until the podling is in the Incubator and can use the normal ways of ASF meritocracy, nominate new committers, etc. Do people agree with that text? What's the process for getting a change like this into the guide? Thanks, Dave
