On Mar 1, 2007, at 7:52 AM, Craig L Russell wrote:
Hi Geir,
On Mar 1, 2007, at 6:22 AM, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
2) are the initial committers and mentors PMC members and should
they
get the PMC role?
Yes, the initial committers and mentors are PPMC members. I have
not seen any special privilege in JIRA for the PMC project role.
So I don't think it really matters whether they are assigned that
role or not.
This actually depends on how the project works, actually. There's
no hard and fast rule that dictates the initial committer list ==
PPMC
Thanks for pointing that out. This is a guideline, not a rule. From
http://incubator.apache.org/guides/ppmc.html
"The Podling Project Management Committee (PPMC) helps a Podling
learn how to govern itself. It works like a PMC but reports to the
Incubator PMC instead of to the ASF Board. Initially, it is
composed of the Podling's mentors and initial committers. The PPMC
is directly responsible for the oversight of the podling and it
also decides who to add as a PPMC member."
I'm one commit away from changing that "guideline". In which case
you'd have to find a good reason not to adopt the result, right? :)
So even though it's not a rule, I expect that the podling would
have to have some good reason not to adopt it.
Because there's a whole context that it assumes, that every person
that managed to scratch their name onto the wiki is an "initial
committer", one that I personally don't like. I think that the
people who show interest from that list should be initial committers,
with a low bar, and the mentors start adding to the PPMC based on
behavior.
But this is supposedly a settled issue around here, so there's no
point discussing, I guess.
geir
Craig
geir
Craig Russell
Architect, Sun Java Enterprise System http://java.sun.com/products/jdo
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