> > Another thing that worries me a bit is projects coming in with a large > (N=more than 3 or 5?) number of committers from the same organization, > especially people who have no previous Apache or open source committer > experience. Do we want to set a limit on N, to give the project more > chances to reach the necessary diversity?
To be honest, I think this is not the major issue. I think the major issue is if CorporateX pulls out of a project, can it survive. Now I admit, if CorporateX has made 99% of commits, then its going to be hard. However, if we explicitly try to *limit* participation in a project then we are doing two things: 1. Discouraging involvement - the opposite of the aim of the incubator 2. Ruling out meritocracy - making it harder for some people to become committers than others - the opposite of the aim of the ASF. I think it is vital that we treat this issue with a wide perspective. Paul -- Paul Fremantle Co-Founder and VP of Technical Sales, WSO2 OASIS WS-RX TC Co-chair blog: http://pzf.fremantle.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oxygenating the Web Service Platform", www.wso2.com
