Re: Whats required to become a Tuscany Committer?

2006-07-28 Thread Jim Marino
On Jul 27, 2006, at 9:53 AM, ant elder wrote: One of the reasons I started this thread was to try to get a common understanding about what everyone expects is required to become a Tuscany committer. Its hard to publicly say you think someone isn't ready yet, even on the private list, so a

Re: Whats required to become a Tuscany Committer?

2006-07-28 Thread Jeremy Boynes
On Jul 27, 2006, at 9:53 AM, ant elder wrote: One of the reasons I started this thread was to try to get a common understanding about what everyone expects is required to become a Tuscany committer. Its hard to publicly say you think someone isn't ready yet, even on the private list, so a

Re: Whats required to become a Tuscany Committer?

2006-07-27 Thread ant elder
One of the reasons I started this thread was to try to get a common understanding about what everyone expects is required to become a Tuscany committer. Its hard to publicly say you think someone isn't ready yet, even on the private list, so a common understanding would mean nominations would

Re: Whats required to become a Tuscany Committer?

2006-07-27 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 7/27/06, ant elder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the reasons I started this thread was to try to get a common understanding about what everyone expects is required to become a Tuscany committer. Its hard to publicly say you think someone isn't ready yet, even on the private list, so a

Re: Whats required to become a Tuscany Committer?

2006-07-27 Thread Rick
A tongue in cheek reply to this I've once heard in OS in general was when you get tired of applying the persons patches :-) (sorry if this old or already mentioned) robert burrell donkin wrote: On 7/27/06, ant elder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the reasons I started this thread was to try

Re: Whats required to become a Tuscany Committer?

2006-07-05 Thread Jeremy Boynes
On Jul 5, 2006, at 4:42 PM, Raymond Feng wrote: Hi, I guess I can understand how to get credits for the committer status. As a contributor, I would like to see a well-defined measurable path which I can see how I make progresses toward the goal. It leads two questions: 1) How many

Re: Whats required to become a Tuscany Committer?

2006-07-04 Thread kelvin goodson
+1 from me on taking into account diverse activities, but I must declare a vested interest. I'm encouraged by this discussion, since I'd like to become a committer, and have had that niggling feeling that if it's notches on the jira bedpost that are the primary measure, then it's going to take a

Re: Whats required to become a Tuscany Committer?

2006-07-04 Thread Geoffrey Winn
I assume that a committer, once elected, is active in the entire code base. This bothers me a little. I currently work entirely in the C++ implementation and do almost nothing with the Java code. I think I could easily reach a situation where I have done all the things required of a committer

Re: Whats required to become a Tuscany Committer?

2006-07-04 Thread ant elder
In my opinion no, everyone has strengths and weaknesses and you don't have to be able to do everything to become a committer. Its more about trust. If someones speciality is doc they may never touch any code but they'd still need commit access to update the website. This is the way the Apache WS

Re: Whats required to become a Tuscany Committer?

2006-07-03 Thread Andrew Borley
On 7/3/06, ant elder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it should take a bit more than code to be made a committer - participation in mailing list discussions, the weekly IRC chats, votes, and things like that. And its not just code, high-quality patches could include things for documentation or

Re: Whats required to become a Tuscany Committer?

2006-07-03 Thread Jeremy Boynes
On 7/3/06, Andrew Borley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd agree with this - however, as someone working on the C++ side of things I personally don't feel able to join in with the majority of discussion, centred, as it is, around the Java work. The C++ side is quieter, with Pete and Ed being the main