Re: rules for revolutionaries

2014-08-25 Thread Leo Simons
On Aug 22, 2014, at 6:45 PM, David Nalley da...@gnsa.us wrote: This is, by-the-way, why active committers should want to become PMC members, to get the binding votes aligned to who is doing the work. The ratio PMC member / committer in this project scares me. I am curious why it scares

Re: rules for revolutionaries

2014-08-25 Thread David Nalley
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 2:23 AM, Leo Simons lsim...@schubergphilis.com wrote: On Aug 22, 2014, at 6:45 PM, David Nalley da...@gnsa.us wrote: This is, by-the-way, why active committers should want to become PMC members, to get the binding votes aligned to who is doing the work. The ratio PMC

rules for revolutionaries

2014-08-22 Thread Leo Simons
against bitkeeper, which was a revolution against centralized version control. Empirically, darwinistically, it has to be this way. We’re just not good enough at software development yet to avoid revolution. At various points in the past, apache tried to have rules for revolutionaries, i.e. http

Re: rules for revolutionaries

2014-08-22 Thread David Nalley
This is, by-the-way, why active committers should want to become PMC members, to get the binding votes aligned to who is doing the work. The ratio PMC member / committer in this project scares me. I am curious why it scares you. It doesn't seem terribly out of the norm. CloudStack clearly

Re: rules for revolutionaries

2014-08-22 Thread Sebastien Goasguen
development yet to avoid revolution. At various points in the past, apache tried to have rules for revolutionaries, i.e. http://incubator.apache.org/learn/rules-for-revolutionaries.html good read for us all to at the same time both sanction and limit the scope of revolutions. This can’t work

Re: rules for revolutionaries

2014-08-22 Thread Rohit Yadav
, darwinistically, it has to be this way. We’re just not good enough at software development yet to avoid revolution. At various points in the past, apache tried to have rules for revolutionaries, i.e. http://incubator.apache.org/learn/rules-for-revolutionaries.html good read for us all