Who wants to be a committer?

[Alex Blewitt <Al...@ioshq.com>]

So, a new process; if you are interested in becoming a committer, and 
have submitted enough code/contributions/become a member of the 
community, simply reply to this message title. Please do not reply to 
this same message title if you are not interested in becoming a 
committer, or are not a committer replying.

Once you've announced your intent, can a committer then post a reply to 
this, officially proposing a vote for that person. This will kick-start 
the normal ASF processes which I'm sure we'd all want to follow anyway.

To make it clearer, I suggest that message titles are as follows:

Who wants to be a committer? <- this message
Re: Who wants to be a commiter? Alex Blewitt <- people who are 
interested in nominating themselves
[Vote] Re: Who wants to be a committer? Alex Blewitt <- a committer 
will have to officially launch the voting process off
Re: [Vote] Re: Who wants to be a committer? Alex Blewitt <- responses 
from other people (committers have the only binding votes, but support 
from the community is also a good indication)

Alex.

Comments on committer process

[Alex Blewitt <Al...@ioshq.com>]

The process-vote is essentially the same thing; both are using the 
standard ASF process. The only difference is whether there should be a 
week of nominations first, or whether nominations should be done on a 
one-on-one basis.

By creating a single message thread with a reserved title, I had hoped 
to set a precedent that could be used to track the result -- whichever 
process was used.

Regards,

Alex.

On Wednesday, Sep 10, 2003, at 18:48 Europe/London, Jeremy Boynes wrote:

> Can we sort out the process first - there is vote on that going on 
> right
> now.
>
> --
> Jeremy
>

RE: Who wants to be a committer? Alex Blewitt

[Jeremy Boynes <je...@coredevelopers.net>]

Can we sort out the process first - there is vote on that going on right
now.

--
Jeremy

Comments on committer process

[Alex Blewitt <Al...@ioshq.com>]

On Wednesday, Sep 10, 2003, at 19:02 Europe/London, Noel J. Bergman 
wrote:

> When the process starts, your name would naturally and normally be at 
> the
> top of a list.  But the hard sell is going to rub at least some people 
> the
> wrong way, and I would hate to see that happen.

Sorry, wasn't meant to be a hard sell.

> I know it is tough, but kick back and give the process time to settle 
> in.
> This is all part of incubation.  The Community must learn how to 
> operate.
> Sometimes it takes a bit of strain before people realize that something
> really does need to get done.

I merely filed it so that it would encourage other potentially 
interested committers to put their names forward. After all, I'm sure 
that people know me by now -- but what about others who are working 
towards that goal as well?

As one someone's earlier mails pointed out, sometimes it's just that it 
needs a kick-started process to get the ASF process into action, and in 
essence, that's the point of Davanum's original suggestion.

It's also been suggested that a Wiki would work for the same effect, 
but it's more likely that the current committers are going to read this 
mailing list so having a record of other interested people would be 
more advantageous if brought up on the e-mail list.

Does that explain why I filed it a little better?

Alex.

RE: Who wants to be a committer? Alex Blewitt

["Noel J. Bergman" <no...@devtech.com>]

Alex,

When the process starts, your name would naturally and normally be at the
top of a list.  But the hard sell is going to rub at least some people the
wrong way, and I would hate to see that happen.

I know it is tough, but kick back and give the process time to settle in.
This is all part of incubation.  The Community must learn how to operate.
Sometimes it takes a bit of strain before people realize that something
really does need to get done.

	--- Noel

Re: Who wants to be a committer? Alex Blewitt

[Alex Blewitt <Al...@ioshq.com>]

I put myself forward as a committer. I believe that I have worked on a 
fair amount of code in the implementation of the JavaMail codebase, and 
have also contributed to the community throughout postings to this 
newsgroup not only on JavaMail but on a variety of other topics as well.

I have already signed and faxed the ASF2 contribution form, and in the 
past others have suggested that I may be one of the people considered 
for committer access. In fact, it has already been proposed once but 
only received a +1 and a +0.

Can one of the committers propose me as a committer?

Thanks,

alex.

On Wednesday, Sep 10, 2003, at 18:42 Europe/London, Alex Blewitt wrote:

> So, a new process; if you are interested in becoming a committer, and 
> have submitted enough code/contributions/become a member of the 
> community, simply reply to this message title. Please do not reply to 
> this same message title if you are not interested in becoming a 
> committer, or are not a committer replying.
>
> Once you've announced your intent, can a committer then post a reply 
> to this, officially proposing a vote for that person. This will 
> kick-start the normal ASF processes which I'm sure we'd all want to 
> follow anyway.
>
> To make it clearer, I suggest that message titles are as follows:
>
> Who wants to be a committer? <- this message
> Re: Who wants to be a commiter? Alex Blewitt <- people who are 
> interested in nominating themselves
> [Vote] Re: Who wants to be a committer? Alex Blewitt <- a committer 
> will have to officially launch the voting process off
> Re: [Vote] Re: Who wants to be a committer? Alex Blewitt <- responses 
> from other people (committers have the only binding votes, but support 
> from the community is also a good indication)