On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 17:40, Danny Angus wrote: > > > Is it a vicious abuse to ask to free this community from a concept like > > "meritocracy as the number of lines of code you put into CVS"? > > I'm lagging behind here.. but, if you'll humor me, > IMHO its naieve, and potentially harmful for the project to have one type of > membership, commiters, with many seperate entrance "exams" of different > standards. > It also provides too much privilege in one go. > > I would suggest that there be two entry levels, commiter to a sub-project > and non-coding-member (admin) for a sub-project, neither of which carry as > many benfits/responsibilities as the proposed next level, commiter/admin of > whole-jakarta (like current commiters), which in turn can become "member" of > jakarta, with "members" electing the pmc. "members" would be the elder > statesmen, and others elevated thanks to their contribution to the > community, not just the code, eg jon,sam, et al. >
Naw, I like the PMC being elected by the greater body of committers. I think that keeps em honest. There already is the ASF that functions somewhat more as you say. Jakarta is somewhat of a flat organization, and I think thats a good thing. Too many steps in the hierarchy and sooner or later you have a bureaucratic unmovable body. -Andy > d. > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- http://www.superlinksoftware.com - software solutions for business http://jakarta.apache.org/poi - Excel/Word/OLE 2 Compound Document in Java http://krysalis.sourceforge.net/centipede - the best build/project structure a guy/gal could have! - Make Ant simple on complex Projects! The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote. -Ambassador Kosh -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
