Robert mailed me offlist last week indicating he was going to propose a few new committers. I've not seen that mail yet.
Robert? Ross 2009/11/24 Gavin <[email protected]>: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Robert Burrell Donkin [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Thursday, 19 November 2009 8:27 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Committers >> >> Ross Gardler wrote: >> > 2009/11/18 Robert Burrell Donkin <[email protected]>: >> >> Ross Gardler wrote: >> >>> One of the problems I have observed here in RAT is the lack of >> >>> committers on the project. There are simply not enough people with >> >>> cycles to apply patches in good time frames (I know from personal >> >>> experience). >> >>> >> >>> Given the nature of RAT I would strongly suggest existing committers >> >>> look to recent activity and provide early commit access to people >> >>> already known to us. To be adopted and therefore improved RAT needs to >> >>> be adopted by the projects expecting to use it, when a project looks >> >>> keen to do so we should, at this stage, make it easy for them to do >> >>> so. Hence, as mentor, I suggest a low barrier to entry for people on >> >>> ASF projects. >> >> sorry for dropping the ball on this. >> > >> > Blast - whilst writing this email I said to myself "be sure to >> > indicate that this is not a complaint, the latest round of patches are >> > all less than three days old". My intention was just to flag it - not >> > to complain. >> >> i didn't take it as a complaint, more a call to arms. you're right and >> the timing's right. >> >> - robert > > Ok, to move forward quickly then, can I suggest :- > > 1. Grant commit access to Brian Fox so he can sort out the website issues > (and remove access again if he feels this can just be a temporary > arrangement in order to get us over this hurdle) > > 2. Grant myself access in order to help apply patches in a timely manor. CTR > of course should still be the order of the day, but if I helps ... ? > > Gav... > > > -- Ross Gardler OSS Watch - supporting open source in education and research http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk
