On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 12:22 -0800, Nathan Bubna wrote: > On 3/5/06, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Given that we are one project and that we should be acting as one > > community - I propose that we: > > > > 1) Remove SVN restrictions, all Jakarta committers can commit anywhere in > > Jakarta, with the exception of the Commons-Sandbox as it allows Apache > > committers in general to commit. > > i think this is fine. it brings our practice more in line with the > legal realities of the organization. it adds potential for greater > cross-pollination and lower barriers to resuscitating dormant > projects. it's true that most of us committers are myopic and do > nothing with the greater freedom, but the potential is there for some > to more easily serve the community and their own needs through this.
+1 Commons committers voted in for their work on one project technically have access to other projects. This has not had any negative results as fa as I am aware, and it has lowered the barriers for those committers to become involved in other commons projects where appropriate. I've not seen any case where a committer made inappropriate changes to another project - and if it did happen, normal community oversight would pick that up. I would expect jakarta-wide commit privileges to work just as well as commons-wide. Re "measuring community size of a project" and determining *who* the community is, I agree that the committer list for that project isn't actually very effective. There are several possible measures I can see: * counting vote emails as mentioned by Henri * counting SVN commits to a particular project * inspecting the maven project.xml's committers section and then cross-checking whether the listed people are actively committing to ANY project (ie whether they are still around) * annual online survey that all committers are asked to complete, in which we indicate what projects we actively participate in. Cheers, Simon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
