Hi, JIC - on Qpid we usually discuss a committer's readiness on private before a public dev list vote. (It would be pretty painful for the proposed committer to get negative votes on the public list.)
The incubator PPMC guide talks to the two ways to vote a committer in (and mentions this): http://incubator.apache.org/guides/ppmc.html Hth, Marnie On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Drew Baird (Volt) <[email protected]>wrote: > I understand. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel Kulp [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 10:47 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Nominating committers > > On Tue April 7 2009 4:01:27 pm Drew Baird (Volt) wrote: > > I propose to nominate Scott Golightly and Ben Dewey as committers. > > How do we go about that? > > Mostly just start a [VOTE] thread for each when you think they have earned > it. > > Remember, at Apache, they have to EARN it first. They would earn it > through > contributions on this list, doc updates, patches for issues submitted > through > jira, etc.... When they've shown serious contributions and commitment over > a > period of time, then a vote is warranted. > > That is a little different than some communities. In some open source > communities, you can just show up and say "I want access to fix things" and > if > the lead developer is your friend, they can just grant access. Not so > with > Apache. It's all based on a Meritocracy where they have to earn merit to > gain > access. > > -- > Daniel Kulp > [email protected] > http://www.dankulp.com/blog > >
