Of course you can't.

Thank you for sharing your viewpoint.

Regards,

Pierre Smits

*ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>*
Services & Solutions for Cloud-
Based Manufacturing, Professional
Services and Retail & Trade
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On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Scott Gray <[email protected]>
wrote:

> From my perspective the confluence document seems to outline everything
> pretty well.
>
> I think the 'trust' aspect would simply be that a voting PMC member is
> able to trust that a potential committer would fulfill the the outlined
> roles and responsibilities.  The 'attitude' would simply be that the
> potential committer is willing to follow advice and work well with others.
> Neither of these things are so strange that they'd need to be further
> documented IMO.
>
> I can't speak for Jacopo or anyone else, that's just my interpretation.
>
> Regards
> Scott
>
> On 17/10/2014, at 11:49 pm, Pierre Smits <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > So, you - as any PMC member - can also elaborate on the consensus with
> > respect to the attitude and trustability requirements regarding potential
> > committers (above and beyond the responsibilities, if these exist).
> >
> > Or - as it may be possible that I have misinterpreted the posting by
> Jacopo
> > - is it just about potential committers having the right mindset towards
> > the execution of tasks as described in the roles and responsibilities
> > document? Meaning that they can apply due diligence before committing?
> And
> > that they can make their own interests subordinate to those of the
> > community?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Pierre Smits
> >
> > *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>*
> > Services & Solutions for Cloud-
> > Based Manufacturing, Professional
> > Services and Retail & Trade
> > http://www.orrtiz.com
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Scott Gray <[email protected]
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Pierre,
> >>
> >> Yes, in his opinion that is what we do.  It's probably a correct opinion
> >> too (in my opinion).  But at the end of the day my point stands, PMC
> >> members are individuals and each have different opinions about what
> makes a
> >> good committer.
> >>
> >> I'm not trying to be combative, if you disagree I'm happy to discuss it.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Scott
> >>
> >> On 17/10/2014, at 11:19 pm, Pierre Smits <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Scott,
> >>>
> >>> You are correct. Yet, you forgot to mention that Jacopo used 'we' in
> >> direct
> >>> relation to the words attitude and trust. So, he is not talking about
> >> just
> >>> his own feelings but about the collective perception.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>> Pierre Smits
> >>>
> >>> *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>*
> >>> Services & Solutions for Cloud-
> >>> Based Manufacturing, Professional
> >>> Services and Retail & Trade
> >>> http://www.orrtiz.com
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Scott Gray <
> [email protected]
> >>>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi Pierre,
> >>>>
> >>>> Jacopo's first words in that email were "In my opinion".  That's an
> >>>> extremely important point.
> >>>>
> >>>> There are no guidelines because each PMC member is free to vote
> however
> >>>> they feel would best serve the project.  Any of us could provide our
> own
> >>>> personal guidelines but they would still just be personal opinions.
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards
> >>>> Scott
> >>>>
> >>>> On 17/10/2014, at 10:55 pm, Pierre Smits <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Jacopo,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I your posting regarding the vote to keep the PROJECTMGR in releases
> >> (see
> >>>>> here: http://ofbiz.markmail.org/message/maha6pwlatlxbb64 ) you
> >> addressed
> >>>>> aspects as ' the right attitude' and 'trust them' in respect to
> >> inviting
> >>>>> committers.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> In the committers role and responsibilities page (see here:
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBADMIN/OFBiz+Committers+Roles+and+Responsibilities
> >>>>> ) we can read about the responsibilities. But words like attitude and
> >>>> trust
> >>>>> are not not mentioned.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Can you, as the PMC Chair, explain what the vision and expectations
> are
> >>>>> regarding this right attitude and trust?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Regards,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Pierre Smits
> >>>>>
> >>>>> *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>*
> >>>>> Services & Solutions for Cloud-
> >>>>> Based Manufacturing, Professional
> >>>>> Services and Retail & Trade
> >>>>> http://www.orrtiz.com
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Jacopo Cappellato <
> >>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> In my opinion we should avoid reconsidering the idea of creating
> >>>>>> committers with limited access; instead I would prefer to invite
> >>>> committers
> >>>>>> when we trust them as individuals, when they have demonstrated the
> >> right
> >>>>>> attitude and skills to work in our community etc... and demonstrate
> >>>> enough
> >>>>>> technical skills for the work they have to do; even if it is limited
> >> to
> >>>> a
> >>>>>> subset of the OFBiz codebase they will get full access to the repos
> >> but
> >>>> of
> >>>>>> course they will limit their field of action to the area they know,
> >>>> without
> >>>>>> requiring us to enforce commit rights limitations. As I said this
> can
> >>>> only
> >>>>>> work if we trust them 100% as persons at first.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Jacopo
> >>>>>>
> >>>>
> >>
> >>
>
>

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