Re: Criteria for commit access

2002-05-26 Thread Peter Donald
On Sat, 25 May 2002 07:37, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: On 5/24/02 5:28 PM, Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Costin Manolache wrote: If one quarter of the new commiters make 1/2 the contributions that people like Sam Ruby did - I'm quite happy. As Mark Twain once said The rumors of

Re: Criteria for commit access

2002-05-24 Thread Pier Fumagalli
Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I said was but I believe that this group (as noted on the members meeting this Tuesday) is giving away committer privileges a little bit too easily... I don't think that sound like this is a resolution passed by members or this is a guideline

Re: Criteria for commit access

2002-05-24 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
That's what I did... I posted my -1 over there, detailed why, and I'm waiting for someone to write me back something about it... So far, nothing worth making me change my vote (meaning, nothing more than what was already there). So that means its vetoed...what's your beef? No, my vote is

Re: Criteria for commit access

2002-05-24 Thread Pier Fumagalli
Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's what I did... I posted my -1 over there, detailed why, and I'm waiting for someone to write me back something about it... So far, nothing worth making me change my vote (meaning, nothing more than what was already there). So that means its

Re: Criteria for commit access

2002-05-24 Thread Leo Simons
Just one question, have you ever voted -1 on a committer? (and not just to you, but to every committer on this list). I've abstained, informally (off-list, that is) from voting, once. The guy in question had been active in a part of our project but I hadn't been following on that at all, so I

Re: Criteria for commit access

2002-05-24 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Andy, not everyone grew up in Texas! :) I don't eat beef anymore (you know mad-cow disease and smallpox in the UK) Dern Europeans ain' speaking proper 'merican. Anyhow, just wait around and you'll catch me speaking Spanish too. I do not think the PMC should intervene just because

Re: Criteria for commit access

2002-05-24 Thread Pier Fumagalli
Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy, not everyone grew up in Texas! :) I don't eat beef anymore (you know mad-cow disease and smallpox in the UK) Dern Europeans ain' speaking proper 'merican. Anyhow, just wait around and you'll catch me speaking Spanish too. No estas problema,

Re: Criteria for commit access

2002-05-24 Thread costinm
On Fri, 24 May 2002, Pier Fumagalli wrote: Right but it should be up to ya'll tomcatters to work out your standards amonst yerselves. Thats my only issue. Nope, because if I vote a committer in, I give him access to the Tomcat CVS repo, but I also entitle him to vote for the friggin'

Re: Criteria for commit access

2002-05-24 Thread Sam Ruby
Costin Manolache wrote: If one quarter of the new commiters make 1/2 the contributions that people like Sam Ruby did - I'm quite happy. As Mark Twain once said The rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated. - Sam Ruby -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: Criteria for commit access

2002-05-24 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 5/24/02 5:28 PM, Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Costin Manolache wrote: If one quarter of the new commiters make 1/2 the contributions that people like Sam Ruby did - I'm quite happy. As Mark Twain once said The rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated. But he only said

Re: Criteria for commit access

2002-05-24 Thread costinm
On Fri, 24 May 2002, Sam Ruby wrote: Costin Manolache wrote: If one quarter of the new commiters make 1/2 the contributions that people like Sam Ruby did - I'm quite happy. As Mark Twain once said The rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated. Sorry for picking your name as

Re: Criteria for commit access

2002-05-24 Thread Sam Ruby
Costin Manolache wrote: If one quarter of the new commiters make 1/2 the contributions that people like Sam Ruby did - I'm quite happy. As Mark Twain once said The rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated. Sorry for picking your name as an example tomcat commiter - you are just

Re: Criteria for commit access

2002-05-24 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
* Perhaps a more fruitful topic for us to explore is when to retire committer status due to inactivity. Pier is one of the few to do this explicitly. I have done it a bit more implicitly - including submitting patches to projects that I am officially a committer to. yes. I recommend

Re: Criteria for commit access

2002-05-24 Thread costinm
On Fri, 24 May 2002, Sam Ruby wrote: You hadn't qualified your statement to Tomcat, and I was just teasing about your use of past tense. ;-) All those foreigners who can't learn the proper English grammar and spelling :-) * Deciding when to convert a developer into a commiter is a balance

Re: Criteria for commit access

2002-05-24 Thread costinm
BTW, one idea ( not mine ) would be to have a separate and private list for each project with _only_ the comitters. The proposals for new commiters should be done on that list, not on the public list. I don't know what Dan feels about this whole topic, but I wouldn't take it very well.

Re: Criteria for commit access

2002-05-24 Thread Ceki Gülcü
At 18:31 24.05.2002 -0400, Sam Ruby wrote: * Perhaps a more fruitful topic for us to explore is when to retire committer status due to inactivity. Pier is one of the few to do this explicitly. I have done it a bit more implicitly - including submitting patches to projects that I am officially

Re: Criteria for commit access

2002-05-24 Thread Pier Fumagalli
Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Overall, my feelings on the subject are: * Deciding when to convert a developer into a commiter is a balance that each project/subproject will need to determine for itself. My feeling as well... The subject of my discussion was to get somewhere else, but

Re: Criteria for commit access

2002-05-24 Thread Pier Fumagalli
Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Perhaps a more fruitful topic for us to explore is when to retire committer status due to inactivity. Pier is one of the few to do this explicitly. I have done it a bit more implicitly - including submitting patches to projects that I am

Re: Criteria for commit access

2002-05-24 Thread John McNally
The site docs say it can happen after 6 months of inactivity. Though I can't seem to find the location atm. My question is how does it happen? john mcnally On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 16:39, Pier Fumagalli wrote: Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Perhaps a more fruitful topic for

Re: Criteria for commit access

2002-05-24 Thread John McNally
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 17:06, John McNally wrote: The site docs say it can happen after 6 months of inactivity. Though I can't seem to find the location atm. http://jakarta.apache.org/site/roles.html My question is how does it happen? john mcnally -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Criteria for commit access

2002-05-24 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
In truthit doesn't. On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 20:18, John McNally wrote: On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 17:06, John McNally wrote: The site docs say it can happen after 6 months of inactivity. Though I can't seem to find the location atm. http://jakarta.apache.org/site/roles.html My