Is it worth a thought to require that new podlings find a champion who is not employed by the same organization?
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Henry Saputra <henry.sapu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Definitely +1, active members, with lack diversity, are more useful. > > My original comment was to suggest having mentors come from different > organizations so hopefully could help provide different perspectives > and inputs to the podling. > Never my intention to suggest false diversity to start an Apache > incubator project. > > - Henry > > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 1:20 AM, Chris Douglas <cdoug...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > >> > So, I am fond of Henry's hope that the project will solicit a more > >> diversified > >> > set of mentors and initial committers. > >> > >> The committer and PPMC list should be honest. If there is no > >> diversity, that fact must be visible for it to be tracked. > >> > >> Initial committers are a dodge that demonstrates nothing about the > >> project's willingness to not only accept, but attract new ideas. The > >> viability of an OSS project is not inaccurately *defined* as its > >> ability to compete for that attention. Demanding pro forma adherence > >> to heuristics is a harmful lesson to podlings, unless the goal is to > >> teach them to evade accountability. -C > > > > > > +1 to this. > > > > Sham committers are more of a pain than lack of diversity, as much as I > > dislike sock-puppet projects. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
