I was actually looking forward to contributing for this project where ever possible but I think people have misunderstood our intentions. As requested by my CEO, I would like to withdraw my committer request.
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Dulitha Wijewantha <dulit...@gmail.com>wrote: > +1 for the Dave Fisher's example. I believe most of the people have > misunderstood our intentions. We were offering to help the project to grow > and graduate faster. I am withdrawing my committer request as our CEO asked > too. But honestly speaking - if you guys are *scared* of the *community* > and what the *community* is - I don't believe you shouldn't mention the > below words in the proposal - > > *Although we are aware of the strength of the Apache brand, we are > primarily > * > *interested in the transforming power of the Apache Way to help guide* > *Usergrid towards a more diversified and meritocratic community* > > > In my humble opinion - the above line should not be a part of the proposal > since the Apache way has always been to gather a community around the > proposal who have shown interest towards the idea. > > Cheers > > > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 5:50 AM, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> > wrote: > > > > > On Sep 24, 2013, at 3:19 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:23 PM, Alex Karasulu <akaras...@apache.org> > > wrote: > > >> ...So fill the bus with anybody who volunteers? That does not sound > > >> meritocratic.... > > > > > > It's been like that for a while in the Incubator, people who sign up > > > as initial committers for a podling usually don't have to demonstrate > > > any merit. > > > > > > When the time comes to graduate the podling, it's perfectly fine to > > > ask it to prune its list of committers and PMC members in order to > > > keep only people who have demonstrated their committment during > > > incubation. > > > > When OpenOffice.org was brought to the Incubator there was open > > enrollment. There were over 70 Initial Committers. I had no experience > with > > OpenOffice. I did have an understanding of the ASF. I could help and I > did. > > It was tough to have such a large list many were OpenOffice.org people > who > > never really adapted to the ASF. We had all these people on the PPMC. > When > > graduation time came we managed to reduce the PMC to 25. We left the > > Initial Committers connected. It hasn't really been a problem. > > > > My point is that without the Initial Committer free for all I think that > > AOO would not be as successful as now. > > > > Regards, > > Dave > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > > > > > > -- > *Dulitha R. Wijewantha** Software Engineer* > Tel: 94112793140 | Mobile: 94112793140 > dulit...@gmail.com | http://dulithawijewantha.com > -- *Niranjan Karunanandham* Senior Software Engineer M: +94 777 749 661 <http:///>
