Bertrand Sorry - I misunderstood your point. I would be very happy to limit the number of INITIAL committers! Yes +1. I just don't think that placing limits on new committers who are nominated by merit during incubation is right.
Paul On 10/31/07, Bertrand Delacretaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/31/07, Paul Fremantle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ...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 tend to agree to your view, but I don't get point 2 above. > > Getting committership when a new incubating project comes is makes it > *very easy* for people to become ASF committers: they basically just > have to be on the list of initial committers. And they stay there even > if they do nothing for the project. > > By limiting the number of committers from the same organization when a > project enter incubation, we might force the organization to select > the best people to drive the project, and others would have to enter > the normal way, with the project's mentors having their say. > > It does make it harder for those people excluded from the initial list > to enter the project, but not harder than for any other potential > committer. So I would think that's fair, and that might help community > diversity in incubating projects, even if that means a longer > incubation time. > > That limit might also be a ratio: if a projects enters incubation with > 10 committers from the same company and 10 independent existing apache > committers, fine. But a large non-diverse list of initial committers > sounds wrong to me. > > -Bertrand > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- 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
