I think John C raises an interesting case here, where the voting process can fall down.
A large code dump like that can hurt the quality of documentation and support (in addition to team morale). My $.02 Jon On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 2:36 PM, John Casey <jdca...@commonjava.org> wrote: > > It's about whether you expect to do a ton of work outside the community > here, outside the commit logs and the review, in order to avoid the > discussion and potential for veto. > > Working in this way opens the possibility for changing the rules for who > gets to contribute, especially when code diverges for long periods then > gets reconciled with a massive rebase. > > ASF is supposed to be about more than code. We're supposed to be working > together on this project. I feel like the above hamstrings that whole > process. > >