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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:29:58 -0400
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Subject: Re: The podling initial committers issue
From: Dave <snoopdave@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Jim Jagielski <jim@apache.org> wrote:
>
> On Sep 25, 2013, at 1:01 PM, Dave <snoopdave@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Here's what I think we should add:
> >
> > After a proposal is submitted to the incubator but before a vote is
> called
> > the proposing community may choose to add additional committers who ask
> to
> > be committers or may chose to defer adding new committers until the
> podling
> > is in the Incubator and can use the normal ways of ASF meritocracy,
> > nominate new committers, etc.
> >
> > Do people agree with that text?
> >
>
> The "normal ways" stuff needs to be word-smithed. It's an
> obvious "slam" against the way 90-95% of how other proposals
> have been done and implies that somehow that's "wrong".
>
> If you delete everything after "is in the Incubator..." then
> it's a little less biased or leading.
>

That's a very good suggestion.

- Dave

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