I totally agree, cool heads is the best way to make any quality decisions. I apologise about my misinterpretation of the committer role within Apache, glad to know it is not simply consistent of developer roles.
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sep 6, 2011, at 10:02 AM, Matt Richards wrote: > > > Things appear to be quite heated surrounding the forum transition area > and I > > fear this is ultimately going to rip apart a very strong existing portion > of > > the OOo community if it continues on the path its going. > > Cool heads will need to prevail. > > > I thought a big > > part of the Apache way is building and sustaining a community surrounding > > the project as well as the project itself. > > A few have been strongly passionate, these individuals need to keep their > cool and slow down. > > > But it appears the only way to > > become a contributor for the time being is to have a developer set of > > skills. Forums/support a long side with documentation require a > completely > > different skill set.. I'd hope the ASF has some kind of way to > acknowledge > > this level of work. > > We have added committers and PPMC members precisely because they had a > history with OOo supporting either the forums, wikis, or website. > > Being a Committer is someone who is Committed to the project. That is more > than coding. My path to being voted onto the Apache POI PMC was through > providing various support to the community including answering question on > the user list. > > There will be a proposal coming and we'll see what happens. > > Best Regards, > Dave > > > > > -- --Matt
