Re: [VOTE] Update to Community Roles and Processes

[Dominik Süß <do...@gmail.com>]

+1

but why can a commiter no longer nominate a contributor as commiter? (Since
a Committer is not always a PPMC any longer)
This might be no big difference since I think a proposal of a commiter will
be taken into account, but what is the intention of this change?

Best regards,
Dominik

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Felix Meschberger <fm...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> An update draft of the Sling Community Roles and Processes as been on
> the site since June 2008 [1]. This draft proposes to separate the roles
> of Committers and (P)PMC members to lower the entry barrier for
> committership. Additionally I added an explicit note, that regular
> contributors of documentation may be elected as Committers just like
> regular contributors of code.
>
> I think it is about time to put this draft on vote and accept or drop
> it. So lets start a vote on this the current draft for the Sling
> Community Roles and Processes [1]:
>
>  [ ] +1 Yes
>  [ ] -1 No, because ...
>
> This is a majority vote running until Tuesday, 5. May 2009 (due to long
> weekend in large parts of Europe).
>
> Thanks and Regards
> Felix
>
> [1]
>
> http://cwiki.apache.org/SLINGxSITE/apache-sling-community-roles-and-processes.html
>

Re: [VOTE] Update to Community Roles and Processes

[Felix Meschberger <fm...@gmail.com>]

Hi Dominik

Dominik Süß schrieb:
> +1
> 
> but why can a commiter no longer nominate a contributor as commiter? (Since
> a Committer is not always a PPMC any longer)

See http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#roles for a
distintion between committers and (P)PMC members. In short, committers
just have write access to SVN. PMC members (for graduated project, for
incubator projects it is the PPMC in cooperation with the Incubator PMC)
control the project.

> This might be no big difference since I think a proposal of a commiter will
> be taken into account, but what is the intention of this change?

Comittership discussions generally take place amongst the (P)PMC on the
private list. Of course a committer may send a proposal to the private
list. But yes, a committer is excluded from the discussion.

The goal of this proposal is to lower the entry barrier to grow the
committer community: Up to now all committers are also (P)PMC members,
which raises the barrier. For (P)PMC members we generally expect longer
term committal to the project than from committers.

Of course, nobody prevents us from voting in a person directly into the
(P)PMC and for committership at the same time. But this is not automatic
any more.

Regards
Felix

> 
> Best regards,
> Dominik
> 
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Felix Meschberger <fm...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> An update draft of the Sling Community Roles and Processes as been on
>> the site since June 2008 [1]. This draft proposes to separate the roles
>> of Committers and (P)PMC members to lower the entry barrier for
>> committership. Additionally I added an explicit note, that regular
>> contributors of documentation may be elected as Committers just like
>> regular contributors of code.
>>
>> I think it is about time to put this draft on vote and accept or drop
>> it. So lets start a vote on this the current draft for the Sling
>> Community Roles and Processes [1]:
>>
>>  [ ] +1 Yes
>>  [ ] -1 No, because ...
>>
>> This is a majority vote running until Tuesday, 5. May 2009 (due to long
>> weekend in large parts of Europe).
>>
>> Thanks and Regards
>> Felix
>>
>> [1]
>>
>> http://cwiki.apache.org/SLINGxSITE/apache-sling-community-roles-and-processes.html
>>
>