On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 08:37:29AM +0000, Helder Magalhães wrote: > [Simon] > > I agree, but do you really think that we need to report this to the > > ASF board? > > I don't really know about that (congrats could be left out, although > IMHO it's cool to have a link to click on in order to get some more > information on a given person. I might suggest reworking the congrats > to a link in the new committer name: > > [[http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/contributors.html|Helder > Magalhães]]! was voted in as a new committer. > [...] > [[http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/team.html#ps|Pascal Sancho]] was > voted in as a new committer.
That is a good idea. You can do that yourself. As Jeremias commented, text only. > I didn't see the statistics from the previous thread in the report: > > «As you see, the number of FOP commits and the activity on fop-dev are > rather lower than last quarter. User lists were active again.» > > Including the preceding links, of course. :-) The mail with the statistics of November is this: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/xmlgraphics-general/200911.mbox/%[email protected]%3e, if that is what you mean. > I'd also urge the need to increase active committers, in order to try > pushing out new releases, as existing committers seem to be very busy > at the moment. As for the Batik community, Jonathan Wood seems to be > interested in that, although no actual proof has been given yet (but > that somehow applies to me as well! :-D ). I'm not really aware of > this within the FOP community (regarding users active beyond usual)... Indeed, we need to have seen a proof of sustained interest and a number of contributions, in code, in documentation or in guidance to users, before we would like to vote someone in as a committer. Anyone is free to initiate a vote when he feels that time has come. Regards, Simon -- Simon Pepping home page: http://www.leverkruid.eu --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
