The functions and responsibilities of a committer are up to each project. Typically, they are expected to have more scope for managing JIRA, the wiki, moderating mailing lists, social media, etc.
On 27 February 2013 01:18, Jessica Tomechak <[email protected]>wrote: > On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Sebastien Goasguen <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > On Feb 22, 2013, at 11:30 PM, Jessica Tomechak < > [email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 2:45 AM, Joe Brockmeier <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > >> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013, at 01:01 AM, Rohit Yadav wrote: > > >> > > >>> While this is the first time a proposal was made public, I had to > > >>> rant, the toughest email I had to write, but anyway you should ignore > > >>> it: > > >> > > >> I'd also point out, this isn't something that we dreamed up > specifically > > >> for CloudStack - we're following Apache practices here. It's worth > > >> researching whether something is CloudStack-specific or an Apache > > >> process before holding other folks feet to the fire about the way > > >> they're doing things. > > >> > > >> These are the Apache guidelines for voting on committers: > > >> http://community.apache.org/newcommitter.html > > >> > > >> AFAIK, individual projects (and certainly not incubating projects) are > > >> not free to disregard these practices. > > >> > > >> Best, > > >> > > >> jzb > > >> -- > > >> Joe Brockmeier > > >> [email protected] > > >> Twitter: @jzb > > >> http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ > > >> > > > > > > > > > Totally agreed about all Animesh's awesome contributions. But I have a > > > "this is my first open-source project" question. > > > > > > I searched Reviewboard and don't see any patches from Animesh. Why > would > > > someone who doesn't write code need to be a committer? > > > > > > I read the Apache "committers" docs [1][2] and they mention a few > > > "back-office" things committers can do, but they pretty much assume > that > > > writing code is the main reason to be a committer. > > > > > > Again: totally agreed about Animesh's awesome contributions. Maybe > > Animesh > > > has written tons of code for the project which I've overlooked, in > which > > > case I apologize. I'm still curious about what else committers can do. > > > > We have voted and posted bylaws for the community: > > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/CLOUDSTACK/apache-cloudstack-project-bylaws.html > > > > They define a contributor as: > > > > "Contributors are all of the volunteers who are contributing time, code, > > documentation, or resources to the CloudStack Project. Contributions are > > not > > just code, but can be any combination of documentation, testing, user > > support, > > code, code reviews, bug reporting, community organizing, project > > marketing, or > > numerous other activities that help promote and improve the Apache > > CloudStack > > project and community." > > > > And explain that: > > > > "A Contributor that makes sustained, welcome contributions to the project > > may be > > invited to become a Committer by the PMC. The invitation will be at the > > discretion of a supporting PMC member." > > > > To summarize, it's not just code. > > > > -Sebastien > > > > > > > > > > [1] http://community.apache.org/committers/index.html > > > [2] http://www.apache.org/dev/new-committers-guide.html > > > > > > Jessica T. > > > > > OK, thanks for the replies. This clarifies that Committer may be more of a > vote-of-confidence than anything related to committing code. > > Still wondering: aside from gaining direct commit permissions on the code > repo, what other permissions does an Apache Committer have, if any? This > was more the point of my question, "curious about what else committers can > do." > > For example, maybe only Committers can edit certain blogs, or do certain > types of configuration on other infrastructure. As I mentioned, the Apache > docs refer to some "back-office" tasks that committers can do that > non-committers can't, but they do not go into much detail about this. > That's the point on which I'm still curious. Maybe, for example, it takes a > Committer to update those Apache docs about being a Committer? > > If this is a question for a different Apache list, please let me know. > > Jessica T. > -- NS
