I worry that it creates a high barrier to entry. It's a far more common pattern for a project to do poorly at recruiting new committers, than it is for one to recruit too many.
Could you provide an example that provides a likely (imaginary if you'd like) candidate? Mu's a pretty bad example for a new committer :) From the attached doc I walk away thinking that I need to contribute for 2 years before I can become a committer. Hen On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Ziheng Jiang <zih...@apache.org> wrote: > Forward my comment in private mail list: > > I agree that it would be nice to have some quantitative standards to > evaluate the candidates. Let's encourage the future candidates do this. > > - Ziheng > > On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 09:44 Mu Li <muli....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > It seems that this thread didn't show in the dev list. > > > > Totally agree that we should make the committer nomination more formal. > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Tianqi Chen <tqc...@apache.org> > > Date: Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 4:20 PM > > Subject: Formalize Committer Proposal and Application Procedure > > To: priv...@mxnet.incubator.apache.org > > > > > > Hi Guys: > > As I mentioned in another thread, I personally think the current > > committer proposal and application process is too informal. > > As MXNet grows larger and the community involves, I think it would > be > > very helpful to formalize the process and provide a clear standard for > what > > are we looking for in the comitter proposal process, and allow us to > > evaluate based on the concrete evidence listed in the application to > > promote the comitters. > > This will setup a good standard for the contributors, as well as > > provide solid material to back our decisions. After did some search, I > > created this application template based on the committer application from > > Apache Mesos. I wrote it from the perspective of myself. > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vKTgX1_EkAT7NSmaiBKBmbq > > DuhF9kQd53BB4iUxGn4M/edit?usp=sharing > > > > I would recommend this to become the mandatory thing for the future > > committer nomination and voting, as well as the re-evaluation standard of > > current comitters when we graduate from the incubator project. > > > > Tianqi > > > -- > Ziheng Jiang > Fudan University | Computer Science >
