Niclas I also had exactly the same thoughts on reading the email. I think learning that committership is a position of trust is a key part of the incubation process.
So I'm +1 on the proposal, but I would definitely be -1 on graduation if such a scheme were to be implemented during incubation. Paul On Jan 30, 2008 9:35 AM, Niclas Hedhman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 30 January 2008 15:24, Mark Slee wrote: > > What we'd really > > like to set up here is a system where there are different people with > > committer priveleges to different parts of the project. > > Hmmm... I would oppose this for two reasons; > > 1. Creating boundaries within a project, yet collaborate on the PMC level > seems odd to me. Either people are entrusted within the project (committer > rights) or they are not (no committer rights). If you think that a Thrift > Java programmer will mess up the Ruby Thrift code, then you have bigger > problems to deal with, IMHO. > > 2. Some people will eventually become fluent in more than one of these. Are > you now going to start a VOTE on granting access to such member to another > part of the project? Who is to decide that? The people involved in that > language only or the whole PMC (ignoring for a fact that ASF has rules for > this)? I can't see it work in practice. > > So if you drop that idea, I can vote in favour of incubating this project. > > > Cheers > -- > Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer > > I live here; http://tinyurl.com/2qq9er > I work here; http://tinyurl.com/2ymelc > I relax here; http://tinyurl.com/2cgsug > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Paul Fremantle Co-Founder and VP of Technical Sales, WSO2 OASIS WS-RX TC Co-chair blog: http://pzf.fremantle.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oxygenating the Web Service Platform", www.wso2.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
