On Apr 3, 2007, at 9:33 AM, Jeff Genender wrote:
We have people, such as yourself, who have been very active on this
project. In fact you are one of the people who comes to my mind
when I
think about folks who have been very active in being a part of this
project. In my opinion I think you are a person who deserves to be a
part of this, as I believe anyone who has been active should be.
It is
my belief that there should be no line between a PMC and the
committers
list, and especially in this case where the project is brand new.
IMHO,
this community has been pretty healthy, and starting off with a cherry
picked elite group is not the way to kick off strong community.
I understand your points above but there was ample time to discuss
this topic in Brett's original post (March 21st) about graduation and
David's original stab at the resolution (March 28th). The time for
this discussion was on that thread. I know that I have not been
actively following OpenEJB lately as I tend to be interested in doing
performance work and not building the container. My last commits
were sometime last year I think.
Perhaps another approach would have been to solicit the community on
who wants to be responsible for the project and then we wouldn't have
started with a pre-defined list. I expect David's intent was not to
be elitist but simply kick start the discussion. (Although, David is
best equipped to comment on his thinking so speculating is probably
not profitable).
Regardless, The project has been working really well and has gotten a
lot of really good work done. Communicated and worked together well.
I believe that the community will work out these issues as it moves
forward and that there was no malice intended and this is perhaps
more of a procedural boo boo.
