[ZF] Committers vs Committer members and getting more of each

[Jim Fulton]

This is not a proposal, but I'd like to share some thoughts on how I  
think
this should work in hopes of influencing proposals:

- The process should be simple

- It should be possible to become a committer without
   being a committer member.  I like the lightweight process we
   have now for enabling committers.  I think it has served us well.
   IMO, a committer agreement submitted to legal at zope.org
   should be all that's required.

- I think that becoming a committer member should require
   significant contributions, which need not involve actual commits
   to the repository.  IMO, becomming a committer member should
   require some sort of majority vote of existing committer members, as
   adding new committer members dilutes their votes.

- The bylaws anticipate separate projects with their own governance.
   I think individual projects should, if they wish be able to control
   who can commit to their areas of the repository.  (Note that  
subversion
   now provides facilities to implement this.)

Jim

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