Accumulo Devs, It occurs to me that with the increased use of GitHub PRs, we have a number of contributors which we do not have their contact email addresses, and who have never participated on the mailing lists. Perhaps they are not subscribed, or merely lurking. Some of these contributors have their email addresses in their git logs, but others might use the github noreply address instead.
Lacking email addresses makes it hard to send invitations to these people to invite them to become committers/PMC members (if/when that time comes). To remedy this, I suggest that whenever we have a new active contributor submitting pull requests, we encourage them to introduce themselves on the developer mailing list, and to subscribe there. A simple comment on their PR like the following should be sufficient: "Hey there, thanks for contributing. If you plan to contribute regularly, please consider subscribing to the developer mailing list and introducing yourself to the other developers in the community." Does this sound like a good idea? Let me know what you think. Also, if there's anybody subscribed to this list who has been contributing and would like to introduce themselves, please consider doing so now. Christopher
