"Geir Magnusson Jr." wrote:
> Isn't that one of the basic principles of this whole thing, letting
> small components be managed as standalone project entities under the
> umbrella of a Jakarta library project? Isn't that why getting the
> committer model right has been such an issue? It certainly has been what
> I have been trying to say now for weeks.
This would be a good time to submit a patch to the draft proposal, to
give us something to vote on.
In general, we've proposed the taglibs model, extended to include an
active committer roster in each package's status file, and a combined
user/dev list for each package.
In the draft proposal,
< http://husted.com/about/jakarta/lib005.htm >
the committer model is expessed at
4.3 Each package must maintain a list of its active committers in its
status file.
14. Volunteers become committers to this subproject in the same way they
are entered to any Jakarta subproject. Being a committer in another
Jakarta subproject is not a prerequisite.
15. Each committer has karma to all the library packages, but committers
are required to add their name to a package's status file before their
first commit to that package.
16. The library committers shall elect a committee of three committers
to provide general oversight, in the style of the Jakarta PMC.
17. New packages may be proposed to the library general list, and voted
on by all subproject committers. To be accepted, a package proposal must
receive a positive super-majority vote of the library
committers. Proposals are to identify the rationale for the package, its
scope, its interaction with other packages and products, the Commons
resources, if any, to be created, the initial source from which the
package is to be created, and the initial set of committers.
17.1 The whole number of +1 votes needed for a super majority is
calculated by dividing the total number of active subproject committers
by four, multiplying by three, and rounding to the nearest whole number
(>= .5 rounds up).
19. Anyone may propose a new package to the library, and list themselves
as the initial committers for the package. The vote on the proposal is
then also a vote to enter new committers to the subproject as needed.
-Ted.
