The incubator podling PMC document (http://incubator.apache.org/
guides/ppmc.html)has a decent process for voting in a new committer
with significant discussion from ASF notables (at least people whose
name I've seen before) at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=incubator-
general&m=112033710817042&w=2. The basic premise is that discussing
and voting on granting commit privileges is best done on the PMC's
private list followed by a private inquiry to the individual under
consideration before a public announcement. The podling PMC document
talks about having a public pro-forma vote after the private trial,
but I agree with the concern with having pretend votes in public
after the real decision has been made in private.
