On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:03, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: >... > This seems really simple to me. If I move from Korea to the United States I'd > better start learning to speak English if I want to interact with the > population at large. If I just want to stay within my little Korean community > then I can continue to speak my native language all that I want. Even an > American living in the south needs to learn "proper" English if they want to > run for a national office and be effective.
Oh, I totally understand. > That said, American English is constantly evolving. If the ASF as a whole > wants to adopt terms like "Full Committer" and "Partial Committer" than I'd > expect to see a definition somewhere. As it stands, I must have missed the > email where they were defined. Without that context I'm left to assume a > "Partial Committer" is somehow handicapped or missing a few body parts, or a > "Full Committer" is someone like me with a little too much weight on their > torso. http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/roles.html#committers > The "cost" here is that a decently large project integrated with a larger > organization and in doing so simply needs to be able to communicate > effectively. That means a) getting the organization to recognize and accept > the different terminology being used or b) stop using that terminology when > speaking to the larger audience. Option a isn't accomplished by simply using > the terminology and expecting everyone else to conform. The Board report uses the term "committer" and "PMC member". It also uses "partial" and "full", but those simply augment the report and are present because the svn community is a consumer/producer of this report. It makes it easier for that community, *and* it also helps to teach the community what our "ASF names" are for the svn concepts. The svn community *is* still learning about the ASF, after all. Here is the section in question: ---- ** Community Since our last report, in May, we have added two more committers. These are "partial" committers, meaning they are restricted to certain portions of the tree. The first, artagnon, is a GSoC student for Git(!) and is adding a new "svnrdump" client-side tool to produce or load Subversion dump files remotely (eg. for fast-loading into Git). The second, stefan2, is working on a branch with a broad set of performance improvements across the system. No new PMC Members ("full committers") have been added. ---- As you can see, we aren't trying to foist new terminology on anybody. I continue to believe that the terminology used in our report is fine. The Board showed no concern during the meeting. This ruckus seems quite overblown. Cheers, -g --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
