Re: [discussion] Committer Addition Process

2005-09-21 Thread Leo Simons
Andy, you can stop playing devil's advocate now. You made your point. Please try and be a little more constructive, we have enough advocates dealing with this stuff already! You're not being very logical either. You're protesting the formality of some processes but at the same time you're forcing

Re: [discussion] Committer Addition Process

2005-09-20 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On Sep 20, 2005, at 6:24 PM, Brett Porter wrote: On 9/21/05, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 4) A committer will lose commit status after 4 months of inactivity. In order to regain commit status, that person must begin participating by offering a patch, new code, etc :) Thi

Re: [discussion] Committer Addition Process

2005-09-20 Thread Brett Porter
On 9/21/05, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 4) A committer will lose commit status after 4 months of inactivity. > In order to regain commit status, that person must begin > participating by offering a patch, new code, etc :) > This seems too much in the long run, but I do thin

Re: [discussion] Committer Addition Process

2005-09-20 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On Sep 20, 2005, at 10:25 AM, Davanum Srinivas wrote: Geir, Am looking for specific timelines and specific things an indiviual can do to make sure that they catch the eye of the PMC/PPMC for commit status. Offer a patch or contribution. That's pretty specific. For a person looking from ou

Re: [discussion] Committer Addition Process

2005-09-20 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On Sep 20, 2005, at 10:16 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I'd like to keep it really simple : 1) Anyone with a contribution that would belong in SVN can be considered for commit status by the PMC (PPMC while in incubation). This contribution can be anything - new code, a patch to exist

Re: [discussion] Committer Addition Process

2005-09-20 Thread acoliver
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: I'm going to shameless steal an idea from Andy Oliver. Amended with #4 : 1) Anyone with a contribution that would belong in SVN can be considered for commit status by the PMC (PPMC while in incubation). This contribution can be anything - new code, a patch to exi

Re: [discussion] Committer Addition Process

2005-09-20 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Geir, Am looking for specific timelines and specific things an indiviual can do to make sure that they catch the eye of the PMC/PPMC for commit status. For a person looking from outside, there is no info on what they should do (other than what they are doing right now) to become a committer. +1 t

Re: [discussion] Committer Addition Process

2005-09-20 Thread acoliver
So I'd like to keep it really simple : 1) Anyone with a contribution that would belong in SVN can be considered for commit status by the PMC (PPMC while in incubation). This contribution can be anything - new code, a patch to existing code, documentation, a change to the website, testing c

Re: [discussion] Committer Addition Process

2005-09-20 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
I'm going to shameless steal an idea from Andy Oliver. Amended with #4 : 1) Anyone with a contribution that would belong in SVN can be considered for commit status by the PMC (PPMC while in incubation). This contribution can be anything - new code, a patch to existing code, documentatio

[discussion] Committer Addition Process

2005-09-20 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
Adding committers to a project is a problem every project faces, and there are quite a large number of ways to do it. I've been too worried about legal issues (and they pop up often) lately, and this is a good subject for us to resolve now. We must * have a visible process to ensure fairn