Hello PPMC and community, In this thread, I want to discuss our committer requirements for contributors that are willing to move from contributors to committers.
Hope to build a consensus with the following proposal. =============================== # Become A Committer of Apache Kyuubi Anyone being supportive of the community and working in any of the CoPDoC areas can become an Apache Kyuubi committer. The CoPDoC is an acronym from ASF to describe how we recognize your contributions not only but code. - **Co**mmunity - You can join us via our mailing list, issue trackers, discussions page to interact with community members, and share vision and knowledge - **P**roject - a clear vision and consensus are needed - **Do**cumentation - without it, the stuff remains only in the minds of the authors - **C**ode - discussion goes nowhere without code Apache Kyuubi community strives to be meritocratic. Thus, once someone has contributed sufficiently to any area of CoPDoC they can be a candidate for committer-ship and at last, voted in as a Kyuubi committer. Being an Apache Kyuubi committer does not necessarily mean you must commit code with your commit privilege to the codebase; it means you are committed to the Kyuubi project and are productively contributing to our community's success. ## Committer Requirements: There are no strict rules for becoming a committer or PMC member. Candidates for new committers are typically people that are active contributors and community members. Anyway, if the rules can be clarified a little bit, it can somehow clear the doubts in the minds of contributors and make the community more transparent, reasonable, and fair. ### Continuous contributions Committer candidates should have a decent amount of continuous engagements and contributions (fixing bugs, adding new features, writing documentation, maintaining issues boards, or answering community questions) to Kyuubi either by contributing to the codebase of main or website GitHub repositories. - +3 months with light activity and engagement. - +2 months of medium activity and engagement. - +1 month with solid activity and engagement. ### Quality of contributions - Well tested, well-designed, following Apache Kyuubi coding standards, and simple patches. - Well-organized and detailed user-oriented documentation. ### Community involvement - Be active on the dev mailing list and help mentor newer contributors and users. - Be active on the issue tracker for project maintenance - Be involved in the design road map discussions with a professional and diplomatic approach even if there is a disagreement =============================== Thank you for all your feedback and time. If there are no strong objections, I will put this on our website. BR, Kent Yao
