[RESULT] Re: [PROPOSAL] emeritus committers?

[Rodney Waldhoff <rw...@apache.org>]

With 6 binding +1s [Rodney Waldhoff, David Graham, Yoav Shapira, Martin
Cooper, Gary Gregory, Robert Burrell Donkin] and no -1s, this vote has
passed.

As noted in the thread, Arun and Ted
have been otherwise active, so that leaves the following 14 committers
being moved to emeritus status:

> arron - Arron Bates
> conor - Conor MacNeill
> dsale - Doug Sale
> dwinterfeldt - David Winterfeldt
> hammant - Paul Hammant
> jariw - jariw AT hyperlink-interactive DOT co DOT uk
> jefft - Jeff Turner
> marcsaeg - Marc Saegesser
> mas - Michael Smith
> nacho - Ignacio J. Ortega
> noel - Noel J. Bergman
> paulo - Paulo Gaspar
> serge - Serge Knystautas
> vmassol - Vincent Massol

I can set up the emeritus committers page today, but I don't think I've
got karma for modifying the avail file.  Can someone volunteer to take
care of the avail file?

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Rodney Waldhoff wrote:

> There is a perception in some circles that Jakarta as a whole, and Jakarta
> Commons in particular, is too large for sufficient PMC oversight.   In my
> opinion, particularly with respect to Jakarta Commons, this is not the
> case, but one way to combat that perception is to recognize that although
> the CVS avail file lists 72 committers for the jakarta-commons repository
> (see http://cvs.apache.org/~rwaldhoff/jakarta/jakarta-committers.html),
> not all of those folks are actively working in Jakarta Commons anymore.
> Removing inactive committers from the avail file (and naming them emeritus
> committers) is one way to recognize that fact.
>
> The jakarta guidelines state "At times, Committers may go inactive for a
> variety of reasons. A Committer that has been inactive for 6 months or
> more may lose their status as a Committer. Getting access back is as
> simple as re-requesting it on the project's Developer mailing list."
> <http://jakarta.apache.org/site/roles.html>
>
> The following 16 folks are listed in the CVS avail file, but have not made
> any commits in the past year (since 13 Nov 2002):
>
> amamment - Arun Mammen Thomas
> arron - Arron Bates
> conor - Conor MacNeill
> dsale - Doug Sale
> dwinterfeldt - David Winterfeldt
> hammant - Paul Hammant
> husted - Ted Husted
> jariw - jariw AT hyperlink-interactive DOT co DOT uk
> jefft - Jeff Turner
> marcsaeg - Marc Saegesser
> mas - Michael Smith
> nacho - Ignacio J. Ortega
> noel - Noel J. Bergman
> paulo - Paulo Gaspar
> serge - Serge Knystautas
> vmassol - Vincent Massol
>
> It may be that some of these folks have been "active" in non-CVS ways, for
> instance, by posting to the commons-user or commons-dev lists, I haven't
> checked (nor am I exactly sure how I could programmaticly check that).
>
> Removing those 16 would reduce the number of active committers to 56, a
> more that 20% reduction in the perceived size of jakarta-commons (by that
> metric at least).
>
> Just to clarify, I have no issues with any or all of those folks
> maintaining access to the jakarta-commons CVS module, nor is this some
> sort of judgment of a lack of activity (indeed there are a number of folks
> on that list that I have a lot of respect for).  Rather, this is a
> recognition that those folks have moved on for the time being and an
> attempt to make the perceived size of Jakarta Commons more accurately
> reflect the reality of the matter.  As the guidelines state, a simple post
> to commons-dev would be all that is needed to restore direct CVS access
> and reverse the inactive status.
>
> The Proposal:
>
> Unless anyone on that list wants to declare themselves "active" right now
> (or someone else can vouch for some sort of commons related activity in
> the past year or so), let's invoke that paragraph of the jakarta
> guidelines and declare these folks "inactive" committers.  Specifically,
> let's:
>
> (1) remove those folks from the avail file and
>
> (2) add an "emeritus committers" page (or section of some existing page)
> to the jakarta-commons website that acknowledges their contributions and
> indicates the mechanism by which they can once again get CVS access.
>
>

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- Rod <http://radio.weblogs.com/0122027/>

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Re: [RESULT] Re: [PROPOSAL] emeritus committers?

[Rodney Waldhoff <rw...@apache.org>]

Updated.  See <http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/contributors.html>.

Can someone remove the following 12 names from the avail file for
jakarta-commons (not -sandbox, just commons)

> > >>arron - Arron Bates
> > >>conor - Conor MacNeill
> > >>dsale - Doug Sale
> > >>dwinterfeldt - David Winterfeldt
> > >>hammant - Paul Hammant
> > >>jariw - jariw AT hyperlink-interactive DOT co DOT uk
> > >>jefft - Jeff Turner
> > >>marcsaeg - Marc Saegesser
> > >>mas - Michael Smith
> > >>nacho - Ignacio J. Ortega
> > >>paulo - Paulo Gaspar
> > >>vmassol - Vincent Massol

Thanks.

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Re: [RESULT] Re: [PROPOSAL] emeritus committers?

[Rodney Waldhoff <rw...@apache.org>]

Ok.  I just committed the xdoc changes, but I'll fix 'em.

The new list to remove from the avail file is:

> >>arron - Arron Bates
> >>conor - Conor MacNeill
> >>dsale - Doug Sale
> >>dwinterfeldt - David Winterfeldt
> >>hammant - Paul Hammant
> >>jariw - jariw AT hyperlink-interactive DOT co DOT uk
> >>jefft - Jeff Turner
> >>marcsaeg - Marc Saegesser
> >>mas - Michael Smith
> >>nacho - Ignacio J. Ortega
> >>paulo - Paulo Gaspar
> >>vmassol - Vincent Massol

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Serge Knystautas wrote:

> Rodney Waldhoff wrote:
> > With 6 binding +1s [Rodney Waldhoff, David Graham, Yoav Shapira, Martin
> > Cooper, Gary Gregory, Robert Burrell Donkin] and no -1s, this vote has
> > passed.
> >
> > As noted in the thread, Arun and Ted
> > have been otherwise active, so that leaves the following 14 committers
> > being moved to emeritus status:
> >>arron - Arron Bates
> >>conor - Conor MacNeill
> >>dsale - Doug Sale
> >>dwinterfeldt - David Winterfeldt
> >>hammant - Paul Hammant
> >>jariw - jariw AT hyperlink-interactive DOT co DOT uk
> >>jefft - Jeff Turner
> >>marcsaeg - Marc Saegesser
> >>mas - Michael Smith
> >>nacho - Ignacio J. Ortega
> >>noel - Noel J. Bergman
> >>paulo - Paulo Gaspar
> >>serge - Serge Knystautas
> >>vmassol - Vincent Massol
>
> Sorry, I thought there were provisions for newly added committers who
> hadn't committed yet.
>
> Noel and I were just made committers a couple of months ago, and I don't
> think should be moved to emeritus.
>
>

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Re: [RESULT] Re: [PROPOSAL] emeritus committers?

[Serge Knystautas <se...@lokitech.com>]

Rodney Waldhoff wrote:
> With 6 binding +1s [Rodney Waldhoff, David Graham, Yoav Shapira, Martin
> Cooper, Gary Gregory, Robert Burrell Donkin] and no -1s, this vote has
> passed.
> 
> As noted in the thread, Arun and Ted
> have been otherwise active, so that leaves the following 14 committers
> being moved to emeritus status:
>>arron - Arron Bates
>>conor - Conor MacNeill
>>dsale - Doug Sale
>>dwinterfeldt - David Winterfeldt
>>hammant - Paul Hammant
>>jariw - jariw AT hyperlink-interactive DOT co DOT uk
>>jefft - Jeff Turner
>>marcsaeg - Marc Saegesser
>>mas - Michael Smith
>>nacho - Ignacio J. Ortega
>>noel - Noel J. Bergman
>>paulo - Paulo Gaspar
>>serge - Serge Knystautas
>>vmassol - Vincent Massol

Sorry, I thought there were provisions for newly added committers who 
hadn't committed yet.

Noel and I were just made committers a couple of months ago, and I don't 
think should be moved to emeritus.

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