| Re: [orbit-dev] Vote for Committer status for Ajay Subramanya - to be cancelled. |
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Such confusion is IMO caused by the fact that Orbit is (technically)
not open to contributions. Indeed, in order to contribute to Orbit, you need to first be a committer to Orbit, because contributing to Orbit involves many repository manipulations that can't be easily tested locally. As opposed to other projects, most Orbit committers (including me) are committers just by convenience with usage of CVS repo as they needed to include a library once, rather than by involvement in the project as opposed to the principle of meritocracy; and although Orbit has an army of committers, few are actually contributing to the project. In this condition, it seems unfair to me that someone who wants to add a library to Orbit gets refused to contribute because they're not a committer on another project. Just like it seems unfair to make someone a committer just for a single contribution. No need to be a committer to be a worthy contributor. I think if we want Orbit to be an easier project which relies on meritocracy, we need to think about having a way to enable contribution of patches to Orbit, and let anyone submit patches, and a few ones merge them (not reviewing them wouldn't hurt since current changes aren't reviewed anyway). Moving to more mainstream technologies such as Git ( https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=349048 ) and maybe Tycho would make it easier to turn contributions into patches and test them locally or automatically. So it would overall allow Orbit to take advantage from efforts that contributors-non-committers are willing to offer. |