Re: [stp-pmc] PMC meeting minutes 9may06

[Carl Trieloff <cctrieloff@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike.

Correction on late night mail - new baby in the house at -> <-.


Carl Trieloff wrote:
> Mike,
>
> I wanted to make it clear that we are out of ->initial submission (not 
> incubation) <- and new committers need to come
> through standard process - per Dan Berg's mails.
>
> "we need to bring on more committers faster than the process allows so 
> we need
> to figure out a way to end-run the process".
> NO - I DID NOT MEAN THAT.  I was just going through that the only way 
> that commiters
> can join the project is if a new project that passes creation review 
> wants STP to incubate it.
>
> STP is just starting to come together, more commiters at this point 
> will most likely not be able to
> stay out of each others way. The goal of the conversation was to make 
> sure the PMC collectively
> understands that the PMC can't vote commiters onto STP, group recap of 
> Eclipse processes ( I like to
> make sure we cover all the mails to the PMC in our meetings). the fact 
> that it is in the public notes
> means we are not plotting anything :-)
> If you have any more questions feel free.
>
> Kind regards
> Carl.
>
> Carl.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Mike Milinkovich wrote:
> >  
> > > -> Carl raised possibility of adding committers to the project
> > >     by having them bring a subproject for incubation, rather than
> > >     having a code base to bring with them.
> > >
> > > . Implication is that their project will need to go through the 
> > > usual project review cycle before it, and it's committers, can be 
> > > adopted by STP.
> > >     
> >
> > I'm not sure I understand this statement. This could be construed to 
> > say "we
> > need to bring on more committers faster than the process allows so we 
> > need
> > to figure out a way to end-run the process".
> > Which is the behaviour expected from people on a mission :-)
> >
> > But what I don't understand is the motivation for the increasing the 
> > rate of
> > new committer adoption. It seems to me that there are already quite a 
> > few
> > committers for the size of the code base, so I'm obviously missing a
> > pertinent fact or two. What are they?
> >
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