Dude,
It's catch 22. There weren't any legitimate committers (because there
was no initial code base) at the beginning of the project to "vote".
Because of this, there needs to be a lower barrier of entry than a
formal procedure. Otherwise I might suggest a segment of the willing go
off and create an initial codebase in a CVS/SVN somewhere that is more
open and then submit it. For a project with no code this seems a bit
officious. Let the "likely" people in (Mladen for instance is an apache
committer in good standing who has plans to do something) and then let
Darwin sort them out. Then they can vote in committers in the normal
way. The project needs code!!! Rather than being officious, the goal
should be to facillitate every means possible to make that happen. It
will be messy and there will be serveral misdirections but thats what a
repository is for. Forward momentum.
-Andy
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
On Sep 20, 2005, at 9:11 AM, Davanum Srinivas wrote:
Geir,
When folks have sent in their ACQ/ICLA, we should give them direct
commit access (after maybe a VOTE on the ppmc list). I really don't
like putting so many road blocks, what exactly are we waiting for?
What roadblocks are you talking about?
We certainly want a vote and not just make everyone who fills in
paperwork a committer. I don't think we need a high bar to entry, but
at least a patch, maybe? This is a good subject to discuss.
*Any* bulk contribution - i.e. code created outside of the day to day
flow of the project by committers should come into a JIRA so the
contribution can be inspected and understood to be a clearly delineated
contribution. We will be keeping a record of all such contributions.
geir
Assuming that all is well with the ACQ, this means that we can accept
the code you have put in the WIKI into SVN for people to start
playing with. You will have to add the code to a JIRA entry for the
project, so you can definitively offer it under the Apache license.
Thanks,
dims
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