Re: [Sparrow-devel] Maven

[Joel S. <jo...@ik...>]

On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 10:21, Andy Lewis wrote:
> Maven is comprehensive, well thought out, and very detailed. But Maven is
> also way to heavy for a starting point for a team. Most of the decisions
> there need to be discussed and agreed upon by a community to be effective.
> I would propose using it as a highly regarded reference source, but each
> community needs to work out it operations organicly.

Heavy? Hmm... not what I've read so far. It seems to take care of a lot
of the questions we had been discussing before. It seems rather
straightforward, takes into account many best practices... seems pretty
common sensical to me to use it.

> The first things I see that need to be done for this to move forward are a
> defined decision making process. Voting? If so, who votes, and what
> consitutes a passed vote - majority? 2/3 majority? unanimous? Let's
> establish some basic governance principales that everyone is comfortable
> with first. Then making decisions will be clear, and concise.

At this point, considering that the only contributors besides myself are
not actively working on the project (that I know of), there's not much
basis to divvy out voting rights at this point. Contributors get voting
rights based on the contribution--a vote of current voters gives someone
voting rights.

We discussed this initially and had agreed that a general voting process
with a benevolent dictator (me) breaking things up if a logjam occurs.

Until contributors come forward and claim their voting rights, I'll move
things forward being influenced by any parties who submit their
opinions.

> That is the most basic starting point.
> 
> After that, there needs to be decisions made on how communications are
> handled and recorded, and then there needs to be some agreement on how work
> is assigned/volunteered for/allocated.

There is already a owners document in CVS. Unfortunately, as I
mentioned, no one other than me is actively working on the project yet,
it's out of date.

> Then the project can start moving ahead.
> 
> Bear with me if I seem out of line here, but while my time is limited, and
> I may not be able to contribute much in the way of acutal coding, I do want
> to see this succeed....

No problem. But I thought we already covered much of what you are
discussing.

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