On Jakarta, we have a sample letter that can be sent to Contributors when we are ready to nominate them as Committers. It occurred to me that we should also have a follow-up letter welcome them as a Committer. This would be a good place to insert some of points that have come up over Reorg and Community lately.
Please see the updated page at <http://jakarta.apache.org/site/roles.html> for a sample "Dear (new) Committer" letter. The letter refers to a "Newbie Committer FAQ". I did not link in the newbie FAQ, since I thought it warranted a second by a current member of the Jakarta PMC. The proposed Newbie FAQ can be viewed at <http://jakarta.apache.org/site/newbie.html>. It also occurs to me that something the incubator project can do is provide a template set of guidelines and procedures for the projects. In the way of guidelines, we have a draft set that includes several "clarifications" , in case anyone in the incubator project is interested in this idea. <http://jakarta.apache.org/site/proposal.html> -Ted.
