The thing is, as far as risk management goes, the vetting we do on general@incubator is largely ceremonial. The real responsible review work is done by people who are reviewing commit activity, and it is a shame we don't do a better job of empowering these conscientious reviewers with a binding vote on a release.
>________________________________ > From: "Mattmann, Chris A (388J)" <chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov> >To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <general@incubator.apache.org>; Joe >Schaefer <joe_schae...@yahoo.com> >Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 12:30 PM >Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Expressing priorities about release reviews > >I agree with you on this Joe. A lot of times my metric is more >responsiveness and participation than in legal/language intricacies. More >power to folks who are good at that, it's just not me. > >Cheers, >Chris > >On 1/12/13 9:07 AM, "Joe Schaefer" <joe_schae...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >>One of my long time pet peeves with how we >>PMC members participate in vetting releases >>is our penchant for focusing too much on the >>policies surrounding license and notice info. >>I really think our exclusive focus on things >>that really don't pose any organizational risk >>to either the org nor the project participants >>serves us well in our other, often unexpressed >>but far more relevant, goals about encouraging >>committers to participate in active review of >>their project's commit activity. >> >>Just think about this for a second, what's more >>likely for people to start suing us over, some >>bug in the NOTICE file or an undetected backdoor >>in one of our programs? I am personally far more >>concerned about the current state of the actual >>review going on in our podlings than I am about >>NOTICE minutia. >> >>Maybe we should compile some list of which committers >>are actually subscribed to their project's commit lists? >>It's crude but it may be useful data to look at to >>a first order. > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > > >
