On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 01:54PM, Russel Winder wrote: > On Tue, 2015-09-29 at 14:49 +0300, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > > > […] > > 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. > > It remains a very big shame that these two words (committer and > committer) and their associated roles (core team member and person who > updates the mainline repository) are so conflated by the ASF rules and > procedures. The ASF really need to unbundle these concepts if it is a > forward looking organization.
I don't think Apache conflates these things. From [1] User: is someone that uses our software..... Developer: is a user who contributes to a project in the form of code or documentation... Commiter: is a developer that was given write access to the code repository and has a signed ICLA [1] https://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#roles Cos
