Hi everyone, Moving this from the private list to general (this is actually a spin of from a thread about adding a committer to an inactive project, hence that it was on private).
Definition list : Inactive project = a project that has no *developer* community. The Apache Way : To become committer on a project you have to earn that right, you have to stand out, submit patches, show you care, learn the apache way and have to get noticed by the current committers who can nominate such a person. Problem : If that didn't happen enough in the past, it can happen that at a certain point no developer community is active anymore. Which causes : A catch22 situation. Since there is no developer community, no one is able to determine if people deserve to become a committer. Even if you are monitoring such a list (such as I do for all Jakarta lists), it is hard to determine if people deserve committership. Solution : I don't have one specifically :) Part of the solution is always that a project needs a kind of mentor that is willing to invest time in a project, teach the Apache way, etc.. Let's come up with a way to get around the catch22 scenario.. Mvgr, Martin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
