It might make sense to have the community choose its PMC and for them
to offer to help rather than having one person define the list. I'm
not sure of the precedent in incubator for this. In the other thread
Jacek had specifically requested two people be added and that request
was missed somehow. That is what really caused me to move to a +0
but that was probably more my ignorance in how incubator does these
things.
On Apr 3, 2007, at 4:34 PM, David Blevins wrote:
If Apache were to pass a by-law saying PMCs are no longer required,
I'd be the first person to resign from it. However we have to have
a PMC for legal oversight reasons and will continue to add people
to it, but I personally really hope it never becomes the "core" of
our community. I hope that the core always remains right here on
the dev list where everyone, committer or not, can participate.
Perhaps your advocating PMC == commit which works too. (if people
are willing to exercise oversight)
We have done an excellent job in this community at making sure we
all feel like we make a difference here, that someone without
commit privileges has just as much voice as someone with commit.
Several people, committers and otherwise have stood up and said
so. I think it would be a terrible tragedy to start defining the
word community as those on the PMC and to say anyone not on the PMC
are being ostracize and not part of the community.
I think what caught people off guard was the proposed list. It setup
an artificial barrier I think; not your intent I'm sure.
I'm personally happy with the progress we've made for ourselves and
am fine adding more people to it over time.
Yup, the community has done a bang up job.
How do others feel?
-David
