Re: When a committer leaves ...

2010-08-25 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: > ...It is of course fine to trim the list at the point of > graduation by looking at those who actually contributed during the > incubation phase vs. just adding their name as "oh yes I'll contribute" I agree that that's important,

Re: When a committer leaves ...

2010-08-24 Thread Sanjiva Weerawarana
IMO the main thing to be careful about is to not look at committership from the traditional organizational structure approach. Committership is a means to an end (modifying code) but we are also interested in getting that person become actually be committed to the project and care about it and have

Re: When a committer leaves ...

2010-08-24 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Niclas Hedhman wrote on Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 08:24:48 +0800: >> I think that the committer list could very well remain without >> trimming as it will be a decent record of past contributors, and that >> the effort is put into "Who is going t

Re: When a committer leaves ...

2010-08-24 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Niclas Hedhman wrote on Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 08:24:48 +0800: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:45 AM, Benson Margulies > wrote: > > Luciano, > > > > A River committer has indicated a lack of interest in remaining > > involved. Emeritus status seems overkill in a podling, but that's just > > my opinion.

Re: When a committer leaves ...

2010-08-24 Thread Mark Struberg
passing apache accounts almost 'for free' This will some day lead to our accounts getting used for sending spam emails and stuff if we treat this too relaxed. LieGrue, strub - Original Message > From: Daniel Kulp > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Sent:

Re: When a committer leaves ...

2010-08-23 Thread Craig L Russell
On Aug 23, 2010, at 6:44 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: Could I shake an opinion out of anyone else here? I'm having trouble wrapping my intuition around, "Person X sent email saying, I'm not going to participate any longer.' but we're going to keep him on the committer list anyhow." The commit

Re: When a committer leaves ...

2010-08-23 Thread sebb
On 24 August 2010 02:50, Joe Schaefer wrote: > Many graduating projects trim their list of committers / ppmc members, > primarily because the list of initial committers rarely reflects the active > people on the project. > > In your case just ask infra to remove the committer from the project ac

Re: When a committer leaves ...

2010-08-23 Thread Daniel Kulp
On Monday 23 August 2010 8:24:48 pm Niclas Hedhman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:45 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > > Luciano, > > > > A River committer has indicated a lack of interest in remaining > > involved. Emeritus status seems overkill in a podling, but that's just > > my opinion. Sin

Re: When a committer leaves ...

2010-08-23 Thread Joe Schaefer
Many graduating projects trim their list of committers / ppmc members, primarily because the list of initial committers rarely reflects the active people on the project. In your case just ask infra to remove the committer from the project acl. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 23, 2010, at 9:44 PM, B

Re: When a committer leaves ...

2010-08-23 Thread Benson Margulies
Could I shake an opinion out of anyone else here? I'm having trouble wrapping my intuition around, "Person X sent email saying, I'm not going to participate any longer.' but we're going to keep him on the committer list anyhow." I would further expect that the initial PMC would consist of people w

Re: When a committer leaves ...

2010-08-23 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:45 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > Luciano, > > A River committer has indicated a lack of interest in remaining > involved. Emeritus status seems overkill in a podling, but that's just > my opinion. Since this is an active expression of dis-interest, the > 'how long' questi

Re: When a committer leaves ...

2010-08-23 Thread Benson Margulies
, Benson Margulies > wrote: >> What's the protocol when a committer leaves? Just edit them out of the >> template? The mentor procedure talks about adds (but does not mention >> the >> https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/infrastructure/trunk/subversion/authorization

Re: When a committer leaves ...

2010-08-23 Thread Luciano Resende
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > What's the protocol when a committer leaves? Just edit them out of the > template? The mentor procedure talks about adds (but does not mention > the > https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/infrastructure/trunk/subversion/

When a committer leaves ...

2010-08-23 Thread Benson Margulies
What's the protocol when a committer leaves? Just edit them out of the template? The mentor procedure talks about adds (but does not mention the https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/infrastructure/trunk/subversion/authorization/asf-authorization-template) but does not mention de