Steve, first of all, you nor I nor anyone else can -1 Rajith from joining
the Synapse PMC. He's a WS committer and any WS committers can sign up for
the PMC.
This is not a vote! Its simply a "I want in" issue.
Steve Winter wrote:
-1 for Rajith attapattu as a synapse pmc.
I have a concern over his intentions. I'm inactive listener in this
community for a long time. I have seen this name in axis mail lists
long time back. He did some axis stuff back then. i was knee deep in
a clustering issue those days. May be this is another person. I'm not
sure, but I think that was when he did that for some axis company back
then, may have been his paid work. After that he was no more.
AFAIK Rajith never worked for "some axis company". I'm the one who
encouraged him to join Axis and contribute .. he was working in some telco
in Canada then and he contact me out of the blue (he's of sri lankan
origin .. that's the only connection) and I adviced him that contributing
to open source was the way to get out being "just a random programmer" for
some company.
He started doing work on axis2 and then did some stuff for clustering too
(he was collaborating with Prof. Ken Birman's group in Cornell at the
time). After that he got a job at JBoss (IIRC) and then they got acquired
by RedHat ... and he got co-opted to work on QPid as he was already an ASF
committer by then. So contributing to open source did help him!
He has continued to hang around Axis2 and Synapse and contribute bits here
and there voluntarily. To me that's the true test of one's "Apache Way"
nature- will you continue to do stuff if you're no longer paid by someone
to do it. Rajith has passed that in spades- he has continued to contribute
by writing code, replying to messages, giving talks about Axis2 etc. etc..
If I remember correct, one time axis people announced they are going
to trim inactive commiters. THere was one person sent a couple of
I don't recall Axis folks ever saying that? Maybe I can't remember ..
mails to mail list and did one-liner commit or so. :) I may be wrong.
But I remember this name because it was so funny suddenly coming up
this after a sudden.
See the following for Rajith's mailing list participation:
http://synapse.markmail.org/search/?q=rajith
http://axis.markmail.org/search/?q=rajith
From my perspective Rajith has been a long time contributor who has
proven that he's about the ASF and not about the job telling him what to do.
That's the kind of people we want to have hanging around the ASF.
I feel like some poeple only intention is to have name everywhere.
Some people want to collect commiterships for CVs. :) Think Synapse
won't gain anything from this. I did some research on mail lists and
svn, there's nothinghe done on synapse. Only a few +1s and Ays given
occasioaly without any effective outcome.
Please see above.
Synapse is cool and have a great future. The community would be lot
cooler without these issues hanging. Synapse members reconsider. Real
contributors and would be contribtors should deserve this.
Every WS project committer is entitled to put their name on the wiki as a
PMC member of Synapse. ASF works on the model that karma, once earned,
never suffers from bit-rot.
Thus, Rajith proved himself to us once and he has earned his keep for
good- if he wants to be on the PMC, well dammit, he gets to be on it.
Sanjiva.
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Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D.
Founder & Director; Lanka Software Foundation; http://www.opensource.lk/
Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://www.wso2.com/
Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/
Visiting Lecturer; University of Moratuwa; http://www.cse.mrt.ac.lk/
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