Jukka Zitting wrote: > Hi, > > Apache UIMA has been incubating for quite a while now, and I was > wondering about your plans for graduating. > > The last UIMA board reports I've seen have listed the need for more > committers as an issue before graduation. But looking at the dev@ list > and Jira I see a lot of active contributors and submitted patches, so > I'm not sure what the issue is. Our main issue is one of wanting to bring in *diverse* committers - ones who work for different companies. We are getting a lot of contributions - but most are from one company - so we're worrying about "overloading" with committers from one company. > What's your policy for adding new > committers? > We try to follow the normal Apache policy. Except for possibly worrying unnecessarily (?) about diversity, you're right -- I agree we should be considering some additional committerships.
-Marshall > A typical Apache project is happy to hand out committership once a > contributor has been around for a while and submitted a few good > patches. It doesn't seem like UIMA would have any particular problems > finding new committers like this. > > BR, > > Jukka Zitting > > >
