Rich - Happy to see this but frankly the foundation should ensure all projects recognize non coding contributors as committers. PMCs that gate keep due to lack of code contributions are misinterpreting the idea of a committer and need to be addressed.
Thanks, Dinesh On Fri, Oct 2, 2026 at 1:18 PM Rich Bowen <[email protected]> wrote: > In this week’s office hours, Drew and I discussed the folks who are active > in community development activities in ASF projects, but are not recognized > (ie, not made committers) for that work. We’d like to start inviting them > to be ComDev Committers, in recognition of that work. Ideally, those > projects would do this, but of course a number of projects have a higher > bar to inviting someone to Committer status than I think they should. And > as I have no influence to get them to change that, this is what I can do. > > What do y’all think about that? > > Do you have people in mind that fit this description? (I have a few people > in mind - notably a bunch of people who have spoken at ApacheCon/Community > Over Code 3+ times but are still not committers on their various projects. > > —Rich > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
