CVMI Membership Nomination (Neil Richards)

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> On 7/31/12 7:36 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> Hi Andrew,
> >>
> >> On 31/07/2012 11:42 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> >>>> On 31/07/2012 11:01 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> >>>>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>>>> As far as I can see [1] there are no members of the CVMI
> >>>>>> project,
> >>>>>> so as
> >>>>>> Project lead you are free to appoint the initial set of
> >>>>>> Authors,
> >>>>>> Committers and Reviewers. [2]
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>    From what I remember of the same issue with IcedTea, there
> >>>>>    is
> >>>>>    one
> >>>>>   member
> >>>>> (me) so if I simply vote yes, it passes...
> >>>>
> >>>> It was not necessary to conduct a vote for the initial set of
> >>>> authors/committers/reviewers - you could have simply advised the
> >>>> registrar who they are.
> >>>>
> >>>> But now you have voted the vote is effectively complete and so
> >>>> you
> >>>> now
> >>>> have a new committer. So any further nominations will require a
> >>>> vote.
> >>>> :)
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> This is what I was told before:
> >>>
> >>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2012-January/002338.html
> >>>
> >>> hence the confusion! :-S
> >>
> >> Ah I see. I disagree with Dalibor here. There is nothing that says
> >> the
> >> initial set has to be defined at the instant of project creation,
> >> nor
> >> is
> >> there any time limit set. So to me, until the project lead makes
> >> any
> >> initial appointments they are free to make those initial
> >> appointments.
> >>
> > 
> > Yes, I agree with you and that's the approach I took last time,
> > until corrected
> > by Dalibor.
> > 
> >> IANAL but I do like arguing as if one :)
> > 
> > Heh, me too :-)
> 
> Yeah, and Iris agreed with you both in that case (and she was right,
> too, and I wrong ;).
> 
> My apologies for the confusion back then and that it persists :/
> 
> cheers,
> dalibor topic
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Did this ever actually go through?  Neil is still not listed as having
commit access on http://openjdk.java.net/census#cvmi
-- 
Andrew :)

Free Java Software Engineer
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