From general-return-1080-apmail-incubator-general-archive=incubator.apache.org@incubator.apache.org Thu Jul 31 14:24:42 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-general-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 91423 invoked by uid 500); 31 Jul 2003 14:24:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact general-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: no List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list general@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 91320 invoked from network); 31 Jul 2003 14:24:40 -0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: general@incubator.apache.org From: Nicola Ken Barozzi Subject: Re: Invitation to xmlbeans-dev Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:19:26 +0200 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Sender: news X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N kkress@bankofny.com wrote, On 31/07/2003 16.13: > Berin, > > Personally, I'm undecided about Steven Noels request to become > a committer. In the same way that I am a relative unknown to > you, Steven and Ted are new acquaintances. In fact, all of the > current committers are new acquaintances to me. So my dilemma is > do I say, "Bring 'em on, the more the merrier" or do I say, "Why > don't we wait until the current committers have bonded before > we add someone new." I'm straddling the fence. > > I did think that Ted made a good point earlier: The ratio of BEA > to non-BEA committers is high and adding committers at this point > could be interpreted as "padding". > > I'd love to hear how the other committers feel. Perhaps that will > tip me to one side or the other. AFAIK usually a couple of mentors are added to the committers list. This happened with POI AFAIK for example. I would keep this, as it helps by example (not on code necessarily but at least about how to manage things), and makes it possible to have more active oversight to the CVS codebase. -- Nicola Ken Barozzi nicolaken@apache.org - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscribe@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-help@incubator.apache.org