> On Apr 13, 2014, at 10:30 AM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <dlie...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Apr 13, 2014 10:22 AM, "Ted Dunning" <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <dlie...@gmail.com >> wrote: >> >>> +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.
This is where a contrib or piggybank-style sandbox could help, so people could submit things "in probation" until they're proven out.
