Re: When a committer leaves ...

2010-08-25 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Sanjiva Weerawarana sanj...@opensource.lk wrote: ...It is of course fine to trim the list at the point of graduation by looking at those who actually contributed during the incubation phase vs. just adding their name as oh yes I'll contribute I agree that

Re: When a committer leaves ...

2010-08-24 Thread Mark Struberg
: When a committer leaves ... On Monday 23 August 2010 8:24:48 pm Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:45 AM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Luciano, A River committer has indicated a lack of interest in remaining involved. Emeritus status seems overkill

Re: When a committer leaves ...

2010-08-24 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Niclas Hedhman wrote on Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 08:24:48 +0800: On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:45 AM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Luciano, A River committer has indicated a lack of interest in remaining involved. Emeritus status seems overkill in a podling, but that's just

Re: When a committer leaves ...

2010-08-24 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.name wrote: Niclas Hedhman wrote on Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 08:24:48 +0800: I think that the committer list could very well remain without trimming as it will be a decent record of past contributors, and that the effort is put

Re: When a committer leaves ...

2010-08-24 Thread Sanjiva Weerawarana
IMO the main thing to be careful about is to not look at committership from the traditional organizational structure approach. Committership is a means to an end (modifying code) but we are also interested in getting that person become actually be committed to the project and care about it and

When a committer leaves ...

2010-08-23 Thread Benson Margulies
What's the protocol when a committer leaves? Just edit them out of the template? The mentor procedure talks about adds (but does not mention the https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/infrastructure/trunk/subversion/authorization/asf-authorization-template) but does not mention deletes

Re: When a committer leaves ...

2010-08-23 Thread Luciano Resende
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: What's the protocol when a committer leaves? Just edit them out of the template? The mentor procedure talks about adds (but does not mention the https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/infrastructure/trunk/subversion

Re: When a committer leaves ...

2010-08-23 Thread Benson Margulies
Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: What's the protocol when a committer leaves? Just edit them out of the template? The mentor procedure talks about adds (but does not mention the https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/infrastructure/trunk/subversion/authorization/asf-authorization-template

Re: When a committer leaves ...

2010-08-23 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:45 AM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Luciano, A River committer has indicated a lack of interest in remaining involved. Emeritus status seems overkill in a podling, but that's just my opinion. Since this is an active expression of dis-interest, the

Re: When a committer leaves ...

2010-08-23 Thread Benson Margulies
Could I shake an opinion out of anyone else here? I'm having trouble wrapping my intuition around, Person X sent email saying, I'm not going to participate any longer.' but we're going to keep him on the committer list anyhow. I would further expect that the initial PMC would consist of people

Re: When a committer leaves ...

2010-08-23 Thread Joe Schaefer
Many graduating projects trim their list of committers / ppmc members, primarily because the list of initial committers rarely reflects the active people on the project. In your case just ask infra to remove the committer from the project acl. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 23, 2010, at 9:44 PM,

Re: When a committer leaves ...

2010-08-23 Thread Daniel Kulp
On Monday 23 August 2010 8:24:48 pm Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:45 AM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Luciano, A River committer has indicated a lack of interest in remaining involved. Emeritus status seems overkill in a podling, but that's just my

Re: When a committer leaves ...

2010-08-23 Thread sebb
On 24 August 2010 02:50, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: Many graduating projects trim their list of committers / ppmc members, primarily because the list of initial committers rarely reflects the active people on the project. In your case just ask infra to remove the committer

Re: When a committer leaves ...

2010-08-23 Thread Craig L Russell
On Aug 23, 2010, at 6:44 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: Could I shake an opinion out of anyone else here? I'm having trouble wrapping my intuition around, Person X sent email saying, I'm not going to participate any longer.' but we're going to keep him on the committer list anyhow. The