I've read nothing on [1] and [2] that requires a committer to use their @apache.org address. We should be putting our time and energy into finding ways to lower the barriers to joining our community and not raising them.
I certainly agree with the aim of encouraging people to become committers as much as possible, so if we feel that using an @apache.org address could be a barrier here, we should reconsider that.
Do we have any evidence that this particular requirement has been a barrier to anyone involved with jclouds?
Also, there may have been a misunderstanding on my part: I was under the impression that anyone with commit rights to the jclouds repos would need to have an ASF ID simply to be able to commit, i.e. that committers would *have* an @apache.org address by definition, and that the question is mainly about whether to *use* it or not.
Very interested to see what the mentors and others with more ASF experience have to say on this topic.
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