Re: Meritocracy, initial contributors and (Incubator) Proposals

2019-01-29 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 8:37 AM Justin Mclean wrote: > >... For straight-to-TLP projects, like your Training proposal, I think the > > initial PMC should consist only of Apache Members. > > While that seem like a good idea it’s not been the case with all PMC members > on previous TLP. ...

Re: Meritocracy, initial contributors and (Incubator) Proposals

2019-01-28 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > For straight-to-TLP projects, like your Training proposal, I think the > initial PMC should consist only of Apache Members. While that seem like a good idea it’s not been the case with all PMC members on previous TLP. It’s really up to the board to decide if they accept a straight to

Re: Meritocracy, initial contributors and (Incubator) Proposals

2019-01-28 Thread Lars Francke
Thanks for the feedback everyone. The general outline makes sense to me and it is reassuring that I didn't miss anything too obvious. I'll wait to see if a discussion is going to develop on the exact form this is going to happen in. Cheers, Lars On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 11:14 AM Bertrand

Re: Meritocracy, initial contributors and (Incubator) Proposals

2019-01-28 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi Lars, On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 5:35 PM Lars Francke wrote: > ...Proposals (and this especially) are a way to be granted something that you > usually have to work for (prove merit) I agree that being listed as an initial committer on podling proposals is a way to get committership without

Re: Meritocracy, initial contributors and (Incubator) Proposals

2019-01-27 Thread Ross Gardler
Some very general guidance - https://community.apache.org/newcommitter.html Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/ghei36> From: Lars Francke Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2019 8:34:10 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Meritocracy, initial contri

Re: Meritocracy, initial contributors and (Incubator) Proposals

2019-01-26 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > Is everyone just added to the list of contributors/PMC members? In my experience for a project going via the incubator generally anyone who asks is added (I can only recall one case where this was not the case and it had a very large list of initial committers). For straight to TLPs

Meritocracy, initial contributors and (Incubator) Proposals

2019-01-26 Thread Lars Francke
Hello everyone, I should have thought of this before, but I didn't. I also did some research in the mailing list archives, but the search terms are so common, I didn't come up with anything. Meritocracy is valued strongly at the ASF. Usually it is granted post-fact when someone has proven her-