Dev at weitling wrote:
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.
that's certainly true, but completely misleading for people deciding to
use Cocoon and I think will hurt Cocoon in the long run. I think there
must be other ways to convince people that Cocoon is great.
Cheers
Michael
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
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