On Jul 27, 2011, at 4:35 PM, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Emmanuel Lecharny <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> On 7/27/11 4:08 PM, Roger Schildmeijer wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Jul 27, 2011, at 3:53 PM, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Emmanuel Lecharny<[email protected]>
>>>>  wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 7/27/11 3:31 PM, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It's just a matter to send a mail with the ICLA attached (I guess it
>>>>>> should
>>>>>> be a scan or a picture of the ICLA with the written signature).
>>>> 
>>>> It is not about how much time it takes to scan an ICLA and send it :).
>>>> He was not in the initial list of committers and as the [VOTE] has
>>>> been accepted and closed and the podling has started I am afraid that
>>>> he should gain credits to become a committer.
>>> 
>>> Not sure I follow why he should? (I have no doubt in Michele and if he
>>> continues to support deft the way he is currently doing he will probably
>>> become a committer one day.)
>> 
>> I think that what Mohammad thinks is that it's not because you have provided
>> a patch once before the project has been accepted at Apache that you should
>> be granted commit access.
>> 
>> The initial members of the project, listed in the proposal, are natural
>> committers. Any other should be voted by the PPMC (and approuved by the
>> IPMC), thus must gain access through merit. This is true for new
>> contributors, but also for those who contributed before.
>> 
>> The rational for this rule is that if you didn't include them in the
>> proposal, then they haven't been 'committed' enough to the project.
>> 
>> See http://incubator.apache.org/guides/mentor.html#Authorize+Committers.
>> 
>> Anyway, I think that what is important here is to found the PPMC, as they
>> will rule the project when it will get out of incubator. You are the guy who
>> make this project successful - or not :-) -, and it's also a part of the
>> process.
> 
> That is *exactly* what I mean, I apologize if I was not clear enough :).

np
.
> 
> I already took the steps to activate the PPMC :).

Nice initiative. :-)

> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Cordialement,
>> Emmanuel Lécharny
>> www.iktek.com
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 
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