On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 11:39 AM Christopher <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
Yes > > 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
