Hi all.
I suppose a list of active committers will prevent people who are no
longer active from receiving emails they don't want to receive from
those looking for help.. so it may stop dead end investigations?
In that way an up-to-date list of committers would be useful...
Also perhaps some other information could be tied in.. such as who
are the experts on which blocks or areas within Cocoon, so people who
are newer to it could find out very quickly where to get help, given
that the state of the docs is still somewhat patchy. This would save
a lengthy exploration of the mailing lists, and get names up in
obvious public view (such as on our soon to be released new
website :-) ).
Just a couple of my thoughts.
Ross
On 14 Mar 2007, at 07:39, 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
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Reinhard Pötz
Vice President, Apache Cocoon
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