On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 11:18, Niclas Hedhman wrote:
[...]
> That is all well and dandy. But it only reflects the "promotion" aspect, not
> the "demotion" aspect. Example,
>
> * if I am voted in as a committer into a project, and then -1 every vote for
> new committers. Does that quantify as being expelled from the community? If
> so, roughly how many, if not why not?
I'd think that at some point your vote will be simply ignored by the
other committers. Basically, a project would "route around the
committer". Yes, you could complain to the PMC and then to the board
which means, that at some point, both sides would have to state their
case "there" with a resolution made by the PMC or the board.
In the end, we're all volunteers here. And the ASF license allows for
easy forking. If someone decides to play mind games with his fellow
committers, IMHO he might find out that at some point he will just talk
to himself and is ignored by everyone else.
As a non-member of the Avalon community, I've noticed that a rift opened
up there from far, far away.
But as my primary project in the Jakarta Community (Turbine) considers
moving closer to Avalon, I'd still be very interested to get the view
from both sides. Could some of the Avalon folks maybe state in a few (!)
sentences, what is the issue over Avalon / Merlin and the rejected Metro
proposal?
Regards
Henning
(I do understand that "moving out of the ASF" is a step that most
projects do only very, very reluctantly; not for technical reasons but
because a non-ASF project does not get the same (media and public)
exposure as an ASF project. (See also: Velocity vs. Freemarker).
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fusing to acknowledge that there might be weaknesses in one's
position - in order to identify them so that they can be remedied -
is a large enough problem with the Open Source movement that it
deserves to be on this list of the top five problems."
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Open Source Software Development"
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