On Apr 13, 2014 10:22 AM, "Ted Dunning" <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <dlie...@gmail.com
>wrote:
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> > +1, but more importantly, reject any new author who doesn't agree to
> > explicitly plegdge a multi-year support.
> >
>
> I am a little bit negative about this requirement. My feeling is that it
> will wind up with accepting naive optimists (the ones we don't want) and
> rejecting realists because they know that a true multi-year commitment is
> subject to buffeting by real-life.
I true. I guess i mean more along the criteria lines, not about how we make
the inference. I meant if we really had a way to make reliable inference
here. It may well be the case there's no such way. Usually the first good
sign is that contributors are sticking to their issue in the first place
for some time.