RE: Code Donations and Committer Righs

2014-09-26 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
It really depends on the project. I don't think there are enough cases of code coming into an existing project via SGA to be able to say "most projects". Fact is most have never faced this issue. I could give you my personal opinion but I'm pretty sure someone on this list would have a different

Re: Code Donations and Committer Righs

2014-09-26 Thread Alex Harui
Hi Ross, Yes, I am asking here because of lack of consensus in the Flex project. In this particular scenario the Flex TLP has received a donation from non-committers. I know one of our mentors mentioned that he was given committer rights to different project for bringing in a code base after that

RE: Code Donations and Committer Righs

2014-09-26 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
, September 26, 2014 9:42 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Code Donations and Committer Righs Hi Ross, Yes, I am asking here because of lack of consensus in the Flex project. In this particular scenario the Flex TLP has received a donation from non-committers. I know one of our

Re: Code Donations and Committer Righs

2014-09-26 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Just like Ross, the following constitutes my personal opinion (that has been formed over the years of maintaining complex code bases written "before my time"): On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) wrote: > OK. I will give you my personal opinion since you are seeking to d

Re: Code Donations and Committer Righs

2014-09-26 Thread jan i
On 26 September 2014 19:23, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > Just like Ross, the following constitutes my personal opinion > (that has been formed over the years of maintaining complex > code bases written "before my time"): > > On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) > wrote: > >

Re: Code Donations and Committer Righs

2014-09-28 Thread sebb
On 26 September 2014 19:03, jan i wrote: > On 26 September 2014 19:23, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > >> Just like Ross, the following constitutes my personal opinion >> (that has been formed over the years of maintaining complex >> code bases written "before my time"): >> >> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 1

Re: Code Donations and Committer Righs

2014-09-28 Thread jan i
On 28 September 2014 15:24, sebb wrote: > On 26 September 2014 19:03, jan i wrote: > > On 26 September 2014 19:23, Roman Shaposhnik > wrote: > > > >> Just like Ross, the following constitutes my personal opinion > >> (that has been formed over the years of maintaining complex > >> code bases wr

Re: Code Donations and Committer Righs

2014-09-28 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, For some context the Flex project has has several donations that have ended up get little or no involvement from the community or the people who donated them after donation. For most projects donations (once a project is top level) are reasonably rare and from what I can see most donations

Re: Code Donations and Committer Righs

2014-09-28 Thread Alex Harui
For more context, there has been only one prior donation from non-committers to Flex and that was completed only 26 days ago. All but one other donation has come from Adobe and are parts of existing Flex products that Adobe provided before the transition to Apache. -Alex On 9/28/14 9:51 AM, "Jus

Re: Code Donations and Committer Righs

2014-09-28 Thread Harbs
On Sep 28, 2014, at 7:51 PM, Justin Mclean wrote: > For some projects automatic committership may work, but given Flex's history > with donations it's probably not suitable choice of action. I don’t see what’s different about Flex. The rationale to give them committer rights is to increase th

Re: Code Donations and Committer Righs

2014-09-28 Thread Alex Harui
>I¹m also not sure what history you mean. The only donation that I know of >that there was no follow through was the Swiz donation. Also for context: The Swiz folks never submitted the software grant so technically it hasn't been donated. -Alex --

Re: Code Donations and Committer Righs

2014-09-28 Thread Branko Čibej
On 26.09.2014 20:03, jan i wrote: > On 26 September 2014 19:23, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > >> Just like Ross, the following constitutes my personal opinion >> (that has been formed over the years of maintaining complex >> code bases written "before my time"): >> >> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:04 AM,