On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 14:40 -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: <snip>
> Interpreted literally, 17 goes against standard practice in jakarta (or > apache, to my knowledge, other than in the incubator). I would > recommend that new packages require existing committers to support them. > I would at least recommend changing "Anyone" to "Any apache committer." > If an individual has already contributed enough to be voted in as a > committer, then that should be done in a separate VOTE. this certainly doesn't reflect the current practise in the jakarta commons. though anyone can propose a new component, they really won't have any chance of winning a VOTE unless they have the support of existing committers. there is also the issue of the incubator: any new component bringing code from outside apache would need to be incubated. is 19 needed in addition to 15? - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]