+1 though I suspect determining the final list to remove will take a while.
David --- Rodney Waldhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is a perception in some circles that Jakarta as a whole, and > Jakarta > Commons in particular, is too large for sufficient PMC oversight. In > my > opinion, particularly with respect to Jakarta Commons, this is not the > case, but one way to combat that perception is to recognize that > although > the CVS avail file lists 72 committers for the jakarta-commons > repository > (see http://cvs.apache.org/~rwaldhoff/jakarta/jakarta-committers.html), > not all of those folks are actively working in Jakarta Commons anymore. > Removing inactive committers from the avail file (and naming them > emeritus > committers) is one way to recognize that fact. > > The jakarta guidelines state "At times, Committers may go inactive for a > variety of reasons. A Committer that has been inactive for 6 months or > more may lose their status as a Committer. Getting access back is as > simple as re-requesting it on the project's Developer mailing list." > <http://jakarta.apache.org/site/roles.html> > > The following 16 folks are listed in the CVS avail file, but have not > made > any commits in the past year (since 13 Nov 2002): > > amamment - Arun Mammen Thomas > arron - Arron Bates > conor - Conor MacNeill > dsale - Doug Sale > dwinterfeldt - David Winterfeldt > hammant - Paul Hammant > husted - Ted Husted > jariw - jariw AT hyperlink-interactive DOT co DOT uk > jefft - Jeff Turner > marcsaeg - Marc Saegesser > mas - Michael Smith > nacho - Ignacio J. Ortega > noel - Noel J. Bergman > paulo - Paulo Gaspar > serge - Serge Knystautas > vmassol - Vincent Massol > > It may be that some of these folks have been "active" in non-CVS ways, > for > instance, by posting to the commons-user or commons-dev lists, I haven't > checked (nor am I exactly sure how I could programmaticly check that). > > Removing those 16 would reduce the number of active committers to 56, a > more that 20% reduction in the perceived size of jakarta-commons (by > that > metric at least). > > Just to clarify, I have no issues with any or all of those folks > maintaining access to the jakarta-commons CVS module, nor is this some > sort of judgment of a lack of activity (indeed there are a number of > folks > on that list that I have a lot of respect for). Rather, this is a > recognition that those folks have moved on for the time being and an > attempt to make the perceived size of Jakarta Commons more accurately > reflect the reality of the matter. As the guidelines state, a simple > post > to commons-dev would be all that is needed to restore direct CVS access > and reverse the inactive status. > > The Proposal: > > Unless anyone on that list wants to declare themselves "active" right > now > (or someone else can vouch for some sort of commons related activity in > the past year or so), let's invoke that paragraph of the jakarta > guidelines and declare these folks "inactive" committers. Specifically, > let's: > > (1) remove those folks from the avail file and > > (2) add an "emeritus committers" page (or section of some existing page) > to the jakarta-commons website that acknowledges their contributions and > indicates the mechanism by which they can once again get CVS access. > > -- > - Rod <http://radio.weblogs.com/0122027/> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
