The 3+ active committer should not come as a surprise. Having 3+ active committers has always been a requirement for graduation. There are numerous discussions of this rule in the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. The Incubator PMC made several remarks regarding log4cxx's committer base when we asked for its graduation. The went along under the assumption that the committer base eventually seek to increase the number of committers.
Why don't you start by nominating the current developers, namely
Andreas Fester Ingo L�tkebohle Daniel Einspanjer Christopher Smith Tommi M�kitalo
Given the liberal nature of the Contributor License Agreement, it is rarely (if ever) a hurdle.
At 19:10 4/29/2005, Curt Arnold wrote:
On Apr 29, 2005, at 10:59 AM, Ceki G�lc� wrote:
Curt,
It is nice to see that you are making progress on log4cxx. One of the promises that we made to the ASF when log4cxx graduated from the incubator was to increase the committer base of log4cxx. Have you taken steps to enlarge the committer base for log4cxx? What are your plans regarding this matter?
Please keep me posted so that I can include your input in my report to the Board.
I was aware it was a concern at graduation, but I was not aware that any promises have been made. I'm definitely open to contributions and additional committers. Consider the rest of the message as a step to enlarge the committer base.
Definitions of ASF Roles: http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#roles
We seem to have a fairly healthy user base, the users mailing list has 146 subscribers, the dev list 66 (roughly 6 of each are mailing list archivers).
The following people have submitted patches (if I missed someone speak up), would be considered a "developer" and therefore could be considered for promotion to "committer".
Andreas Fester: Port of telnet appender to APR network io Ingo L�tkebohle: Configuration patch Daniel Einspanjer: NTEventLog privilege fix Christopher Smith: logstream proposals Tommi M�kitalo: thread id patch
We could definitely use someone to own autoconf builds and release management and may attempt to recruit someone from another Apache C++ project particularly for the next release.
So if anyone is interested in having a cool @apache.org mail address and all the fame (little) and money (none) that come with being an ASF committer, submit patches to new or existing bug reports if you haven't already done so, read the Contributor License Agreement (http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas) and determine if you'd be able to sign one, and speak up and let us know how you would see yourself contributing to log4cxx. If your involvement and interest speaks well for you, then one of the existing Logging PMC members can nominate you to the full PMC for a vote.
-- Ceki G�lc�
The complete log4j manual: http://www.qos.ch/log4j/
