Hi, I fully agree with both of you. Never the less let's welcome a potential new committer first. Welcome Mat, I'm anxious to see your contribution. :-) I'm sure there are couple of issues at the Jira to tackle.
Regards, Achim sent from mobile device Am 20.12.2013 09:15 schrieb "Guillaume Nodet" <[email protected]>: > Of course, that's a necessary step. Again it's a matter of establishing > trust. > > > 2013/12/20 Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> > > > I'm agree, but I would wait at least a couple of patches/contribution. > > > > It's the minimum IMHO to be sure about the quality of the project. > > > > Regards > > JB > > > > > > On 12/20/2013 08:58 AM, Guillaume Nodet wrote: > > > >> 2013/12/20 Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> > >> > >> Hi Matt, > >>> > >>> We don't use wiki at Karaf. If you want to contribute on documentation, > >>> just submit patches or git request. > >>> > >>> For the Jira, I gonna give the karma to you. > >>> > >>> Regarding committership, I look forward to see patches from you. I > would > >>> be pleased to mentor you in this process (that could be long). > >>> > >>> > >> Hopefully not too much ;-) > >> > >> > >> > >>> Committership is an important responsibility ("with great power comes > >>> great responsability"). So you don't ask for getting it, you prove that > >>> you > >>> deserve it ;) > >>> We did mistakes in the past to promote guys too quickly and they didn't > >>> contribute since a couple of initial patches. > >>> > >>> > >> I'm not sure that's a mistake. When committers come, especially when > they > >> come with a contribution, you never know if they will continue working > on > >> it. I'd rather accept it as a fact and eventually move that > contribution > >> into the sandbox if it's not supported for a long time, rather than > >> discouraging people from contributing. > >> I'm not in favor of raising the bar too high, i think we (PMC) can > police > >> new committers. As I've already said, committership mostly a matter of > >> trust, but we need to find the right balance and certainly not > discourage > >> people to get involved. > >> And I'm certainly not in favor of requesting a level of commitment: some > >> people may work as part of their full time job, some people may work on > >> their spare time, some just for fun. You can't compare those. And also > >> this level of commitment can change over time and that's fine to me too. > >> > >> > >> > >>> Regards > >>> JB > >>> > >>> > >>> On 12/20/2013 03:43 AM, Matt Pavlovich wrote: > >>> > >>> Hello- > >>>> > >>>> I'd like to work towards becoming a Karaf committer. I've been active > in > >>>> the community and on the implementation side of things for many years, > >>>> and > >>>> would like to take a bigger role on the dev, documentation and user > >>>> support > >>>> side of things. > >>>> > >>>> My CLA is on file, I'm requesting Wiki and Jira karma (just to assign > >>>> myself tickets). > >>>> > >>>> Thanks! > >>>> Matt Pavlovich > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>> Jean-Baptiste Onofré > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://blog.nanthrax.net > >>> Talend - http://www.talend.com > >>> > >>> > >> > > -- > > Jean-Baptiste Onofré > > [email protected] > > http://blog.nanthrax.net > > Talend - http://www.talend.com > > >
