Re: Roles: user, committer, member, etc.

2005-09-20 Thread Thorsten Scherler
El sáb, 17-09-2005 a las 10:16 +0200, Bertrand Delacretaz escribió: > Le 17 sept. 05, à 01:19, Thorsten Scherler a écrit : > > ...I am actually unsure whether or not a committer role makes sense > > because > > e.g. the cocoon based projects have given the commit right to each > > other. That mean

Re: Roles: user, committer, member, etc.

2005-09-17 Thread Leo Simons
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 10:16:52AM +0200, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > Note that over at Cocoon we make an important distinction between > > a) having commit rights to the code repository > and > b) being a committer, in the sense of having a demonstrated committment > to the project, voting righ

Re: Roles: user, committer, member, etc.

2005-09-17 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le 17 sept. 05, à 01:19, Thorsten Scherler a écrit : ...I am actually unsure whether or not a committer role makes sense because e.g. the cocoon based projects have given the commit right to each other. That means per definition of the role (that we have now) that new committer entering e.g. f

Re: Roles: user, committer, member, etc.

2005-09-16 Thread Thorsten Scherler
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 19:16 +0800, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > On Monday 12 September 2005 18:16, David Crossley wrote: > > We seem to be having endless discussions at some > > projects about what it means to be a committer and > > a PMC member and an ASF member. > > Some "heavy-weighters" have been a

Re: Roles: user, committer, member, etc.

2005-09-15 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Leo Simons writes: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 12:45:04PM -0700, Justin Mason wrote: > > > Indeed. I have a hunch that "re-inventing the collaboration wheel" is a > > > significant part of "the apache way". An organisational structure that > > > is comp

Re: Roles: user, committer, member, etc.

2005-09-13 Thread David Crossley
Leo Simons wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > > One thing that is bothering at the ASF is not having a > > clear definition of the various roles. > > Hmmm. I think there's a lot of people not bothered though. > Not being clear may even serve a purpose. > > > We seem to be having endless discussions

Re: Roles: user, committer, member, etc.

2005-09-13 Thread Leo Simons
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 12:45:04PM -0700, Justin Mason wrote: > > Indeed. I have a hunch that "re-inventing the collaboration wheel" is a > > significant part of "the apache way". An organisational structure that > > is completely patching itself at every level has a lot of appeal. > > Hmm. Why d

Re: Roles: user, committer, member, etc.

2005-09-13 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Leo Simons writes: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 08:16:49PM +1000, David Crossley wrote: > > One thing that is bothering at the ASF is not having a clear > > definition of the various roles. > > Hmmm. I think there's a lot of people not bothered though.

Re: Roles: user, committer, member, etc.

2005-09-13 Thread Leo Simons
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 08:16:49PM +1000, David Crossley wrote: > One thing that is bothering at the ASF is not having a > clear definition of the various roles. Hmmm. I think there's a lot of people not bothered though. Not being clear may even serve a purpose. > We seem to be having endless di

Re: Roles: user, committer, member, etc.

2005-09-12 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Monday 12 September 2005 18:16, David Crossley wrote: > We seem to be having endless discussions at some > projects about what it means to be a committer and > a PMC member and an ASF member. Some "heavy-weighters" have been arguing for long that "committer" is not a role but a right/status, a

Roles: user, committer, member, etc.

2005-09-12 Thread David Crossley
(Hopefully this is the correct list for this topic. The second paragraph on the Incubator website seems to indicate so.) One thing that is bothering at the ASF is not having a clear definition of the various roles. We seem to be having endless discussions at some projects about what it means to b