At the contributor's pow wow a few days ago [1], during a discussion about whether or not commits should have more friction applied -- i.e. have more review before they go in -- it was thought that we might benefit if we had "lieutenants" over-seeing individual HBase components. A lieutenant would be someone who has an interest and an understanding of how a particular component works (or should work). A lieutenant does not need to be a committer. Before committing a patch that touched on a particular component, the patch would have to have been +1'd by the component lieutenant before it could go in (or if the lieutenant is MIA, it was suggested by the Mighty Jon Hsieh that two +1s by other contributors/committers would do instead; this latter rule would probably also apply when a patch spanned components).
We already have a few folks signed up, knowingly or otherwise, as component owners [1]. What do folks think? Should we go ahead w/ this project? If so, any volunteers (I signed up a few of the obvious component leads)? I can add you as component lieutenant into JIRA. We can add more components if you don't see your interest listed. St.Ack 1. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/80621872/
