Hi Reinhard, first: I care :-)
Hm, aside from the administrative work, it might be good to realize how many (or few) people are the "hard kernel" of committers. This could lead to more honours for the people still working hard for no money. And it could convince more people to join a help-g(r)asping community. The advantage of a large list of committers - active or not - is easier convincing project managers to jump on the Cocoon train. Sorry, still no easy answer... Florian Reinhard Poetz wrote: > > Cocoon is an open source project that has been existing for about 9! > years. Many people helped us to grow and to develop and some of them > became committers. According to our rules, every committer can join > the Cocoon PMC.[1] > > On our private@ mailing list we recently had a dicsussion about what > we should do with those committers and PMC members who have become > inactive in the meantime (yes, 9 years is a looong time). > I want to move this discussion to the public Cocoon mailing lists for > two reasons: Firstly, there is no need to discuss such things in > private and secondly, I would like to know what those who are not > committers expect from us. > > Let's start the discussion with the question: > "Do people think it's useful to have an up-to-date list of > committers/PMC members that contains information about who is active? > > I want to share two thoughts: > > - the probably best source of information to find out whether a > project and its > committers are (in)active is looking at the mailing lists and the > changes docs. What's the additional value of having a list containing > the current activity state? > > - mainting a committers list containing the current activity state > causes > some bureaucracy for us. The less work we have the better. > > > So what do you think? (I will interpret "no answers" as "nobody cares" > which is also an important information for us) > > > > [1] http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#roles > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
