On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 03:51:54PM +0100, Pier Fumagalli wrote: > "Jeff Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > .. and thankful that people like Costin persevere in spite of rather > > vicious abuse. > > Vicious abuse? All I am proposing is to add greater flexibility to the > freedom of those who are involved with the Jakarta project.
I was objecting to unprovoked Costin-bashing outside tomcat-dev, not your proposal. People outside tomcat-dev may not understand why a PMC member deserved your comments ;P As for your proposal, a few thoughts: - AFAIK there is no requirement that a committer be a coder. See the definition on http://jakarta.apache.org/site/roles.html. An example: Diana Shannon voted as a Cocoon committer, for volunteering to coordinate docs: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=101896493700004&r=1&w=2 - Your proposal redefined 'contributor' to include CVS access, and I think that will cause confusion with the existing, looser meaning. - (random thoughts..) The whole notion of defining a person's worth in terms of their CVS access seems backwards and wrong. The 'committer/non-committer' dividing line is an artifact of CVS's coarse-grained access control, and will disappear once we migrate to Subversion or whatever. It would be nice if there was a 'rating' system that didn't hijack the versioning system's terminology. Karma rated on a different scale to CVS access. Then there could be a one-way mapping, X karma -> Y CVS access. The karma system could be something like advogato's (http://www.advogato.org/trust-metric.html http://www.advogato.org/person/). --Jeff -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
