If you read Roy's thread you'd have known that what you're
suggesting was put forth by Noel, and Roy responded by basically
saying that putting mentors in charge of a codebase they
did not work on was a mistake:
http://s.apache.org/3h4
- Original Message
> From: Leo Simons
> To: general@incubator.apache.org
> Sent: Mon, June 13, 2011 12:31:00 PM
> Subject: [DISCUSS] how to add many committers to a new project (was: Re:
> [VOTE]
>Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation)
>
> Hey hey,
>
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote:
> > +1 binding. Given the sheer number of committers involved in this podling
> > there will be some work to do trying to gel a coherent development
community
> > out of the group. While I am optimistic, I am reminded of Roy's cautions
> > about "piling on" [1] to a prospective podling, and am not entirely
>convinced
> > that it's necessarily a good thing that we promote the idea of "getting in
> > on the ground floor" wrt new podlings.
> >
> > [1]- http://s.apache.org/VT5
>
> Perhaps one approach the podling could take at the guidance of its
> mentors is to create accounts on demand. I.e. first order of business
> is getting basic infrastructure up (I think everyone is looking
> forward to having traffic on general@incubator back to normal -:) ),
> next up is getting the initial code import. Next after that you start
> adding in the people that have sent in CLAs and are wanting to touch
> the code/website/etc. That's what harmony did. It helped the project
> get into a mode of voting in new people frequently, and it also helped
> make visible to the project that it was ok if you didn't show up on
> day 0.
>
> cheers...
>
> Leo
>
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