The Apache Way came up on the PMC list thread. Is the Apache Way exclusively about certain types of merit and not about any other factor or attribute? It seems from what mentors have written that community is a big part of the Apache Way and merit in building the community is important as well as the characteristics needed to sustain a strong community. The acknowledged problem with merit is that it is difficult to be sure how to measure it, it seems to be more a consensus thing. If two community members have similar merit and there is only one place on the PMC, what determines which one is chosen? We can't determine merit to a high degree of measured precision. It is a strawman argument to say someone will be included on the PMC without merit, that has never been a consideration. If we assume all members of the PMC have appropriate merit, other considerations will come into play and it seems to me that that has no conflict with the Apache Way. -- Ian
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