On Nov 2, 2010, at 1:33 PM, Stephen Connolly wrote: > On 2 November 2010 12:08, Jason van Zyl <ja...@maven.org> wrote: >> >> On Nov 2, 2010, at 12:20 PM, Stephen Connolly wrote: >> >>> I think we should have a separate discussion on what our SLA with the >>> Maven users should be / can be. >>> >> >> I think following the Eclipse process is wise. We're not going to come up >> with anything better. They have delivered consistently for 10 years on >> schedule. We're open source but all of our users are enterprises and >> businesses. Thus all of our contributions are going to come from these >> people and there is an expectation of a release process and social contracts >> that I believe Eclipse has gotten right. >> > > Call a vote, let's see what happens > > I am not opposed to the eclipse process, but rather than saying, oh > nothing ever happens at apache, call a vote and lets see what happens,
Nothing does ever happen. That's empirically evident at least here. But I'm fine having a vote, we certainly can't do less so there's no harm. > OK? > > -Stephen > >>> Once we decide on our initial SLA (we can always increase our SLA >>> afterwards) then we decide what we can keep in agreement with that >>> SLA. >>> >>> as for punishment, there is no point in punishment without hope of >>> redemption. We would need a mechanism whereby the -1's who fail to >>> step up and maintain their favourite plugins can recover their vote... >>> and all that needs to be defined before we think about punishment >>> >>> -Stephen >>> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason van Zyl Founder, Apache Maven http://twitter.com/jvanzyl --------------------------------------------------------- believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who has said it, not even if i have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. -- Buddha
