18 May 2013 18:42
Surveying Apache TLPs
Hey folks, I've been talking a lot about what "committer" means recently. As a person with a vote on the project, do we award this position to people who contribute code, or people who we trust? And are there instances where we trust someone with a vote (i.e. they've shown merit, sustained contributions, etc), even though they do not (and are not likely to) contribute code? One of the things that occurred to me is that I have no idea how other people do it across Apache. I'm involved in two TLPs (CloudStack and CouchDB) and the approaches are quite different. So I was thinking how I might learn more about this. I know ComDev is here to document stuff, but I recently took a look your website, and I noticed that some things are being recommended that seem a little unusual, and there is no mention of how common that thing is across Apache. (In this instance, we were talking about how to elect people to the PMC, and the ComDev website says that in most cases, all committers are on the PMC. This is interesting, because I believe this is actually the minority position across TLPs. But I have no data to back that up.) And it occurred to me that it would be interesting to do a survey of the Apache TLPs. i.e. Just ask people. Then collect that data, and present it in some meaningful format. My thinking is that this sort of data would be useful for the whole of Apache. ComDev, the Incubator, TLPs, etc, etc. I know that in the Incubator, for instance, it can be quite confusing, because the answers you(Continue reading)
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