On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 6:20 PM, Russel Winder <rus...@winder.org.uk> wrote: > On Mon, 2015-09-28 at 16:50 +0200, Cédric Champeau wrote: >> We already have "non code committing" committers. Russel Winder and >> Dierk >> Koenig are examples. They can be seen as gate keepers of the Groovy >> community, and they accepted to become committers even though they >> haven't >> submitted any piece of code for a long time. I think this has been >> addressed already. We are just making sure that new committers are >> really, >> people committed to the project. > > I think this works well as a phrasing to get past all the tension over > labels and roles: Committers are people who commit to serving the > project, this has nothing at all to do with committing pull requests to > the mainline repository.
Well said. I typically explain it to folks that at ASF, committers are those who have a strong commitment to the project, not git/svn commit bit set. Thanks, Roman.
