Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-tomcat-dev-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 78527 invoked from network); 24 May 2002 22:39:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nagoya.betaversion.org) (192.18.49.131) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 24 May 2002 22:39:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 19413 invoked by uid 97); 24 May 2002 22:39:36 -0000 Delivered-To: qmlist-jakarta-archive-tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 19369 invoked by uid 97); 24 May 2002 22:39:35 -0000 Mailing-List: contact tomcat-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Tomcat Developers List" Reply-To: "Tomcat Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 19357 invoked by uid 98); 24 May 2002 22:39:35 -0000 X-Antivirus: nagoya (v4198 created Apr 24 2002) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1309 Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 23:41:31 +0100 Subject: Re: [VOTE] New Committer Dan Sandberg From: Pier Fumagalli To: Tomcat Developers List Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Organization: Betaversion Productions Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N costinm@covalent.net wrote: > On Fri, 24 May 2002, Pier Fumagalli wrote: > >> Just one question on this. Being a committer implies that you're going to >> have the right (and the due, of course, like in any good democracy) to (for >> example) elect PMC members, have -also- a some sort of responsibility over >> what you do, and what others do, meaning code reviews, deciding on the >> future of the whole tomcat project, voting on future release plans and >> such... As I said, this is not only a right, but also a responsibility. As a >> committer you _should_ be doing that. >> >> Now, my question is, do you want _at_this_point_ to have that >> responsibility? Are you interested? I don't want to sound bad, but hey >> everything comes at a price :) :) :) > > Most tomcat commiters review only a small ammount of the commits, that > is relevant to what they know. Voting ( or beeing voted ) in PMC is > optional. > > If you want to know the real price of becoming a commiter - it's > loosing all control over the code you write, having to play flame wars > and grow a thick skin. And you may spend many weekends doing work > that is just thrown away. > > > Pier is right in this aspect - and I fully agree with him that > beeing a jakarta commiter comes at a much bigger price than you > may think. > > > If you want my advice - create a sourceforge account, do all the work > on SSI there, and have fun. ( and maybe give access to other > tomcat commiters who are interested to work on SSI ). Very constructive, Costin, indeed... See my next email (at least I'm trying to propose something)... Pier -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: