On 24.08.2005 02:35:46 Christian Geisert wrote: > Hi, > > In the past votes for new FOP committers happened on fop-dev and for > Batik (I think) they were held in private.
I think you meant "in public", right?. They were actually held in public with all the negative consequences like -1s being cast out and later converted to a different vote. That results in a not so warm welcome for new committers. > A discussion on [EMAIL PROTECTED] some weeks ago concerning the voting > procedure for new committers [1],[2] led me to the conclusion that we > should discuss and vote new committers on the pmc list. > > What do you think? I fully agree. BTW, this leads me to another little detail I caught during ApacheCon when someone (I think it was Noel Bergman) said that only PMC members get binding votes on project decisions. That's because the PMC is responsible for the project and not the committers. That's also the reason why for certain Apache projects (like HTTPD) the set of committers is almost the same as the set of PMC members. Jeremias Maerki (with at least partly the PMC chair hat on) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache XML Graphics Project URL: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
