"Ignacio J. Ortega" wrote:
>
> I think committer status for Jakarta-Commons should be only asked for,
> Not voted, in case the person it's already committer in another Jakarta
> project.. The only voted individuals should those from outer space and
> not already committers in any Jakarta project..
Does that apply to any Jakarta project? No. Some think it should be.
>
> So for me, to lower the entry barriers for committers in any Jakarta
> project it's definitely a goal, and in the particular case of commons
> more justified than ever...
Why? How is a commons project different than Tomcat? (I'm just trying
to stir the discussion...)
>
> How many more merits ( this is the sense of the vote i think ) needs any
> Jakarta committer to be a committer of Commons? none i think, only the
> interest on use/develop some component should needed..
>
> So your method to give JVZ committers status on commons is perfectly
> valid, logical and appropiate to me..
>
> Wellcome aboard , Jason....
>
> Saludos ,
> Ignacio J. Ortega
>
> > -----Mensaje original-----
> > De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]En
> > nombre de Geir Magnusson Jr.
> > Enviado el: lunes 16 de abril de 2001 19:51
> > Para: jakarta-commons
> > Asunto: [DISCUSSION] new committer rules
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> > --
> > Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Developing for the web? See http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/
> >
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Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Developing for the web? See http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/
