RE: REVISED Policy on Initial Committer and PPMC members

2006-10-27 Thread Newcomer, Eric
I agree that if we had had a more formal review of the initial committers list during the proposal process we would have avoided the kind of conflicts that arose after the proposal was approved. I would also agree with some other comments that this sort of policy is intended as a guideline since

RE: REVISED Policy on Initial Committer and PPMC members

2006-10-12 Thread Newcomer, Eric
Having just been through it ;-) this sounds very reasonable to me. I am not sure the issue of emeritus committers needs to be addressed since that can be handled by the project once it's up and running... The main thing seems to be the clarification around the initial committer list and PPMC mem

RE: Policy on Initial Committership

2006-10-05 Thread Newcomer, Eric
Ok, thanks. I understand the best thing to do now is to get the project going, following the process, and as input from this discussion one of the first items of business will be to review the committer list. Regarding the discussion about the future, yes, I agree it is a good idea to have some

RE: Policy on Initial Committership

2006-10-04 Thread Newcomer, Eric
ator.apache.org Subject: Re: Policy on Initial Committership On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 03:22:36PM -0400, Newcomer, Eric wrote: > I do not think there has been any piling on. We reviewed each name on > the list carefully and a name only went on the list if we were convinced > that the individual ha

RE: [VOTE] Policy on Initial Committership

2006-10-03 Thread Newcomer, Eric
Ok, fair enough - ;-) Eric -Original Message- From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 4:28 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: [VOTE] Policy on Initial Committership > Once again, no piling on. Opinions appear to differ, although I

RE: [VOTE] Policy on Initial Committership

2006-10-03 Thread Newcomer, Eric
Once again, no piling on. Eric -Original Message- From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 2:47 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: [VOTE] Policy on Initial Committership Roy T. Fielding wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > Taken from

RE: Policy on Initial Committership

2006-10-03 Thread Newcomer, Eric
>What we saw with CeltiXFire was a piling on of a lot of people who wanted >to be on the initial contributors list --- voted in by virtue of having >self-signed up --- and whom had never contributed anything to the project. FWIW that isn't correct. The individuals on the list had either contribut

RE: Policy on Initial Committership

2006-10-03 Thread Newcomer, Eric
006 2:09 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Policy on Initial Committership On Oct 3, 2006, at 7:08 AM, Newcomer, Eric wrote: > As we have also seen in the discussions on this topic it is natural > for > a project to review and revise the committers list as it progresses.

RE: Policy on Initial Committership

2006-10-03 Thread Newcomer, Eric
;s at least get CXF off to a good start! Thanks, Eric -Original Message- From: Kulp, John Daniel Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 11:31 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Policy on Initial Committership On Monday October 02 2006 10:54 am, Newcomer, Eric wrote: > How co

RE: [VOTE] Policy on Initial Committership

2006-10-03 Thread Newcomer, Eric
Hi, It seems like there's clear consensus now around this question of the initial committers list. Thanks to everyone for joining the debate. A couple of things stand out to me from this: it is important to follow the process and treat approval of a proposal in terms of the agreement it repres

RE: Policy on Initial Committership

2006-10-02 Thread Newcomer, Eric
No, let's be clear, this discussion is all about how someone knows the right thing to do, which is very hard when the rules keep changing. Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Garrett Rooney Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 12:58 PM To: ge

RE: Policy on Initial Committership

2006-10-02 Thread Newcomer, Eric
t publicly and with the involvement of EVERYONE who was involved with the formation of the project. Mark. On 2 Oct 2006, at 16:05, Garrett Rooney wrote: > On 10/2/06, Newcomer, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> How could they contribute when they were not given access? These

RE: Policy on Initial Committership

2006-10-02 Thread Newcomer, Eric
: Policy on Initial Committership On Monday October 02 2006 10:54 am, Newcomer, Eric wrote: > How could they contribute when they were not given access? The same way any non-commiter contributor contributes to a project: 1) JIRA - creating JIRA items, submitting patches, etc... I admit, the CXF J

RE: Policy on Initial Committership

2006-10-02 Thread Newcomer, Eric
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Garrett Rooney Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 11:05 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Policy on Initial Committership On 10/2/06, Newcomer, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How could they contribute when they were not given acces

RE: PPMCs [was Re: what are required for contributing to release management]

2006-10-02 Thread Newcomer, Eric
As a general statement, it is difficult if not impossible to do the right thing when the rules keep changing. The only sensible thing at this point is to continue the CeltiXfire project as originally proposed and accepted. If there are any retrospective issues or problems let's get them on this o

RE: Policy on Initial Committership

2006-10-02 Thread Newcomer, Eric
How could they contribute when they were not given access? These guys have been asking for two weeks or more to be allowed to contribute, and in some cases did not even receive a reply. Eric -Original Message- From: Kulp, John Daniel Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 4:17 PM To: general@in

RE: [VOTE] Policy on Initial Committership

2006-10-02 Thread Newcomer, Eric
+1 Eric -Original Message- From: Berin Lautenbach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 3:18 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [VOTE] Policy on Initial Committership Roy T. Fielding wrote: > The people listed in the proposal as committers are the PPM