FWIW, The Foundation Roles are explained here:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#roles Pretty much in line to what you are thinking. Pedro. --- Dom 3/6/12, Yong Lin Ma <[email protected]> ha scritto: > This was a discussion about rules of > voting for new committer and PPMC > member. We think it is more appropriate to let all > contributors get > involved in this. So I moved the discussion to ooo-dev. > > General process about voting in a new committer and PPMC > member is here > http://incubator.apache.org/guides/ppmc.html > > By far the practice is most candidates were voted for > committer and > PPMC member at the same time. > And no concreate critrial defined in public for AOO. > > Your comments are welcomed. > > > A comment from Rob: > > >If it were entirely up to me I'd have it be like: > > >1) Contributor -- anyone who contributes to the project, > mailing list > discussions, patches, translations, bug reports, doc, > support. This > comes in all flavors and sizes. We need to do a better > job giving > them credit and acknowledging their contributions. If > the feeling is > that someone is not valued unless they are voted in as a > PPMC member, > then we're doing something wrong. > > >2) Committer -- The threshold question: Do we > trust their judgement > with respect to the area of their contributions? The > move from > contributor to committer is a move from RTC (patches must be > reviewed) > to CTR. So we really need to have a sense that they > are doing quality > work. Committers also have veto rights on all of our > commits. So we > need to trust their judgement. > > >3) PMC member -- The threshold question: Do they > understand The > Apache Way and our community-based decision making? On > average are > they solving more community problems than they are > causing? Are they > helping others in the community succeed? When we > graduate, and our > Mentors move on to other podlings, the PMC collectively > needs to > mentor new members to the project. So I think the PMC > is more about > trusting their community skills rather than their technical > skills. > > >It might be possible for someone to qualify for 2 and 3 > at the same > time. But probably not in every case. > > >Note: This is not how we have operated > previously. I think there was > an bootstrapping issue where we needed to have a PPMC > suitably large > and diverse to provide balance. We also obviously > started with a PPMC > consisting of people who did not fully understand > Apache. That is the > nature of Incubation. But I don't think this approach > is necessarily > something we should continue with a year later, as we > approach > graduation. >
