On 08/01/2010, at 1:55 AM, Brian Fox wrote:

>> 
>> What is your proposal here - did you want to vote those 3 people in as 
>> committers on the basis of the contribution, or will the existing committers 
>> apply patches until the rest of us get to know them? (I don't know who they 
>> are, so we may already). Funnily enough these alternatives have been a 
>> current topic on gene...@incubator for other projects :)
> 
> I was intentionally vague because I didn't want to imply any type of
> contingency on the committers coming with the code. The committers are
> Tamas Cservanak, Damian Bradicich and Brian Demers. They've all been
> around the periphery of Maven for a while now, on the lists and irc
> etc. It would certainly make maintenance easier if they had commit
> access, but we can judge that on merits separate from the code.

Makes sense.

> 
> I did review the incubator threads and it seemed to be the consensus
> that the incubator has it's hands full and that projects should
> incubate subproject code where applicable. I see no value in trying to
> bring this code in through the full incubator since any new committers
> are already familiar with the process and we have proper mentors
> available.

Absolutely. I think there are times when incubating a subproject makes sense, 
but not necessary in this case.

--
Brett Porter
br...@apache.org
http://brettporter.wordpress.com/





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