On 7/12/2005 7:28 PM, Jeff Genender wrote:
Its not fear....
Its fairness to the community...we have a lot of people who have contributed
in one way or another and would like to be a committer, but are not. I
think there is something to say not only for the contributions, but the
commitment to the project. IMHO the "commit" of committer also means
commitment. The last thing we want to do is offer full commitership to a
couple of commercial entities out-of-the-box. I think that would give the
wrong impressions to the community.
In addition, I think its fair to say that we should get to know the team
players before giving them the keys to the house.
Given that this is an open source project, it should follow the unwritten
rules of acquiring committership. IMHO, donating code does not guarantee
commitment to the project.
I really don't see an issue with ACLing off an area, be it the sandbox,
sub-project, or incubation, with the aspect of stating that if they show the
commitment, they will be granted karma. It's the way its mostly been done,
and I see no reason this should change now.
This reflects my sentiments as well.
Regards,
Alan
