Re: FindBugs exclusion policy proposal
From the sidelines, Apache projects are encouraged by the norms of the Foundation to actively recruit new committers and to recognize community-positive effort with committer status. Apache projects are, at the same time, given a very wide latitude by the Foundation in making decisions. In my experience across several other projects, if someone has made a significant string of contributions over an extended period of time, it is reasonable for that someone to expect the PMC to give serious consideration to committer status and to offer some sort of meaningful feedback if they choose not to grant it. I suppose that in the extreme a person who feels unfairly excluded could open communication with the Foundations' board; that would be a somewhat extreme course, and it would be a very unusual and extreme situation for the board to dictate to the PMC, but it is theoretically possible. As I have something of a conflict of interest here, (I am a Foundation member and am thus charged with facilitating the Foundation's mission, but I also pay Glenn to work on FOP), I'll leave my remarks about the Foundation at that. As for the situation at hand, I'm not sure that Glenn quite decoded J.Pietschmann's message, which I read as explaining the current situation in terms of a sleepy PMC rather than an intentionally exclusive one. Or perhaps he is more interested in the net effect of the current situation.
[GUMP@vmgump]: Project xml-fop-test (in module xml-fop) failed
To whom it may engage... This is an automated request, but not an unsolicited one. For more information please visit http://gump.apache.org/nagged.html, and/or contact the folk at gene...@gump.apache.org. Project xml-fop-test has an issue affecting its community integration. This issue affects 1 projects, and has been outstanding for 5 runs. The current state of this project is 'Failed', with reason 'Build Failed'. For reference only, the following projects are affected by this: - xml-fop-test : XSL-FO (Formatting Objects) processor Full details are available at: http://vmgump.apache.org/gump/public/xml-fop/xml-fop-test/index.html That said, some information snippets are provided here. The following annotations (debug/informational/warning/error messages) were provided: -INFO- Failed with reason build failed -INFO- Project Reports in: /srv/gump/public/workspace/xml-fop/build/test-reports -WARNING- No directory [/srv/gump/public/workspace/xml-fop/build/test-reports] The following work was performed: http://vmgump.apache.org/gump/public/xml-fop/xml-fop-test/gump_work/build_xml-fop_xml-fop-test.html Work Name: build_xml-fop_xml-fop-test (Type: Build) Work ended in a state of : Failed Elapsed: 2 secs Command Line: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/bin/java -Djava.awt.headless=true -Dbuild.sysclasspath=only -Dant.build.clonevm=true -Xbootclasspath/p:/srv/gump/public/workspace/xml-commons/java/external/build/xml-apis.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/xml-xerces2/build/xercesImpl.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/xml-xalan/build/xalan-unbundled.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/xml-xalan/build/serializer.jar org.apache.tools.ant.Main -Dgump.merge=/srv/gump/public/gump/work/merge.xml junit [Working Directory: /srv/gump/public/workspace/xml-fop] CLASSPATH: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/lib/tools.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/xml-fop/build/test-classes:/srv/gump/public/workspace/xml-fop/build/fop.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/xml-fop/build/fop-sandbox.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/xml-commons/java/external/build/xml-apis-ext.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/ant/dist/lib/ant.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/ant/dist/lib/ant-launcher.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/ant/dist/lib/ant-jmf.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/ant/dist/lib/ant-junit.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/ant/dist/lib/ant-swing.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/ant/dist/lib/ant-apache-resolver.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/ant/dist/lib/ant-apache-xalan2.jar:/srv/gump/packages/junit3.8.1/junit.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/xml-commons/java/build/resolver.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/xmlgraphics-commons/build/xmlgraphics-commons-28022011.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/xml-batik/batik-28022011/batik-slideshow.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/xml-batik/batik-280220 11/batik-svgpp.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/xml-batik/batik-28022011/lib/batik-anim.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/xml-batik/batik-28022011/lib/batik-awt-util.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/xml-batik/batik-28022011/lib/batik-bridge.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/xml-batik/batik-28022011/lib/batik-codec.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/xml-batik/batik-28022011/lib/batik-css.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/xml-batik/batik-28022011/lib/batik-dom.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/xml-batik/batik-28022011/lib/batik-ext.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/xml-batik/batik-28022011/lib/batik-extension.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/xml-batik/batik-28022011/lib/batik-gui-util.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/xml-batik/batik-28022011/lib/batik-gvt.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/xml-batik/batik-28022011/lib/batik-parser.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/xml-batik/batik-28022011/lib/batik-script.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/xml-batik/batik-28022011/lib/batik-svg-dom.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/x ml-batik/batik-28022011/lib/batik-svggen.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/xml-batik/batik-28022011/lib/batik-swing.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/xml-batik/batik-28022011/lib/batik-transcoder.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/xml-batik/batik-28022011/lib/batik-util.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/xml-batik/batik-28022011/lib/batik-xml.jar:/srv/gump/packages/apache-attic/avalon-framework-api-4.3.jar:/srv/gump/packages/apache-attic/avalon-framework-impl-4.3.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/apache-commons/logging/target/commons-logging-28022011.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/apache-commons/io/target/commons-io-2.1-SNAPSHOT.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/jakarta-servletapi/dist/lib/servlet.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/junit/dist/junit-28022011.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/junit/dist/junit-dep-28022011.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/xmlunit/build/java/lib/xmlunit-sumo-28022011.jar - Buildfile: /srv/gump/public/workspace/xml-fop/build.xml Trying to override old definition of task javac Trying to override old definition of task junit init-avail: [echo] --- Apache FOP svn-trunk [1999-2010] [echo] See build.properties and
