Re: Riffing again on another tangent

[Ted Husted]

"Craig R. McClanahan" wrote:
> I'm not as confident as some on this list that any component like a Digester or DB
> connection pool would ever grow to the status of a "top level" project.  I think
> there is a level of functional complexity, and size of developer community, that
> distinguishes a "project" from a "component".  For many of the components we're
> talking about, can you imagine that even the three developer minimum can be
> reached, after the original burst of interest dies down?  I can't.

Just as an aside, if you go back to the original Apache HTTPD
guidelines, the "3 committers" bit is really meant as working quorum,
and in practice only matters when there is a -1 vote. If two active
committers on a package were deadlocked on a product change or
showstopper, they could go upstream to the Library committers, just as
deadlocked product committers might go upstream to the PMC. 

A public release, I think, would go through the entire body of Library
committers, just like taglibs.

-Ted.