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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:18:21 +0100
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Subject: Re: Community readiness-when does it show?
From: Ross Gardler <rgardler@apache.org>
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2009/6/24 Emmanuel Lecharny <elecharny@apache.org>
>
> Martijn Dashorst wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 5:42 AM, J Aaron Farr<farra@apache.org> wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> If a community meets all the criteria, but hasn't discovered a new
>>>> committer (or two) by itself, is the community ready for graduation?
>>>> If not, how can we=97mentors=97 nudge the community to focus on this
>>>> thing, without it becoming an exercise in "checking the check marks"?
>>>>
>>>
>>> There are at least two scenarios:
>>>
>>
>> Yup, but I'd like to add a third one:
>> =A0- the podling has voted in a new committer, but only because the
>> committer was 'discovered' by the mentors
>>
>
> Whoever 'discover' the new committer is irrelevent, IMO.

+1

Sending a mail suggesting the community consider someone as a
committer sends a clear signal about the height the barriers should be
set at and encourages discussion. Next time around someone in the
community will make the proposal.

Ross

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