On 31.10.2007, at 03:54, Matt Hogstrom wrote:
I didn't see a thread get started on this topic yet but I've been
mulling this over for a bit so perhaps we can continue the
discussion in this thread?
I'm not sure that there should be a hard requirement for 3, 5 or n
unique committers. As a guideline I think three is a good working
number but the more important issue is the Incubator PMC's
understanding of the community as they've conducted themselves and
the iPMC's collective view on the project's viability going
forward....
Well, usually our voting guidelines require three +1 etc. so for
example having only three committers from a single company makes
voting kind of pointless :-)
Or at least it creates the impression for other contributors that the
project is solely led by that company...
So the absolute minimum should be three committers with at least two
different entities behind them (e.g. two companies, or at least one
independent, etc.) - OTOH I think the current rules outlined at [1]
are perfectly fine.
...
Anyway, with my recent changes it caused me to think more about the
people than a set of requirements. IMO Jim and Noel expressing
their concern and causing this discussion and deeper inspection of
the project is the right process and makes a lot of sense.
Absolutely but IMHO we simply need some rules/requirements/guidelines
to set a suitable framework.
Cheers,
Erik
[1] http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#community
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