On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:27 AM, Ross Gardler <rgard...@opendirective.com>wrote:
> On 30 November 2012 00:52, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hard cases make bad law. The rough parameters of the recent 'small > > graduates' was that they had around 5 initial PMC members, and some > > detectable evidence that all of them were in the reasonably regular > > habit of contributing code, let alone voting for releases. If we > > insist on testing the absolute lower limit of viability, we're may > > bump into the absurd. > > > > +1 (where "reasonably regular habit of contributing code" should be > "reasonably regular habit of contributing in some way" - that is only being > active in PMC duties would be fine, need not be active committer, as long > as it is responsible activity (i.e. voting from an informed position) > Yes. Particularly for more mature code-bases, I'd put a lot of weight on whether people are around to answer user questions -- quite possibly, explaining the system helps attract new users more than tinkering with it does. --Ari -- Ari Rabkin asrab...@gmail.com Princeton Computer Science Department
