This morning Jason Van Zyl was added as a committer to jakarta-commons.
You all should know Jason - he founded the Velocity project, is an
over-active participant in the Turbine project, a member of the Jakarta
PMC, and knows now to wear eye protection when playing squash.
He was a sandbox committer for the Configuration component - when it was
merged with the approved Collections component, it seemed natural that
he would follow it into jakarta-commons to continue participation.
While I believe that this was a perfectly appropriate way to do it
because of the unique circumstances of a sandbox merge at the same time
as the move to the main CVS, it brings up some questions, and I think we
should discuss this.
In no order :
1) Can a set of component committers add a committer for their
component? For example, supposing Jason was new, could Craig, Vincent
and myself simply voted him in? I believe that is generally appropriate
- currently, the components are a bit small, w/ the exception of cactus,
but this will change over time.
2) If so, then because of the common main CVS, that person is now able
to participate in all components with the 'edit the STATUS file' bit.
Is this what people expect?
geir
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