Ok thanks. Guess you are not ready to nominate me for now. But who are
the nominators? Are you a nominator, Mark? And how to get nominated - do
I have to ask (as I did today) or do I just have to wait until a
nominator gets the idea about me as a committer by himself?
Regards, Per Steffensen
Mark Miller skrev:
On Nov 26, 2012, at 11:51 AM, Per Steffensen <[email protected]> wrote:
I am a very experinced programmer with a long record as architect, designer,
mentor etc. Is there a chance that I could become committer? You will end up
happy - and so will I! :-)
You have to build up enough merit in the project to get someone to nominate
you. Getting someone to nominate you can come about in a few different ways,
but generally it requires seeing a good number of JIRA issues through, being
around long enough to learn and integrate with the current community vibe, and
sometimes other things like helping out on the mailing list, helping others get
JIRA issues in, etc.
You have to build the merit in the community - merit doesn't transfer from
outside of the project.
You can imagine why we are careful about this - we want to make sure the
community grows in a healthy manner and that the others we bring into the
community are a nice fit with the rest of us. We want to make sure some of the
Apache way has seeped into your mind and certainly that a lot of the current
community vibe has as well. IMO, the best committers tend to act like
committers before they are voted in. Once you earn the trust of another
committer or two, and contribute in digestible pieces, you can generally build
a relationship that gets your patches committed quite quickly. Once a committer
comes to trust your code, he tends to have an easier time reviewing. Then he
starts committing more of your stuff. Then he thinks, man, this would just be
easier if this guy was a committer.
In any event, simply continuing to contribute and getting issues into Solr over
a decent length of time is generally enough to be nominated at some point.
Though it really all depends on the nominators in the end. And then of course
you must be voted in by the PMC.
- Mark
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