yay! On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 9:28 PM, Tony Kurc <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > The Apache NiFi PMC has voted to allow volunteers to be a Committer without > being on the PMC, and votes for membership of these groups can now happen > separately. Previously, we had only considered the two roles together. > We'll be adding the following language to the web page, which clarifies the > accesses and responsibilities of Committers: > > Committers: > > The group of volunteers who are responsible for the technical aspects of > the Apache NiFi Project. This group has write access to the appropriate > source repositories and these volunteers may cast binding votes on any > technical discussion. > > Membership as a Committer is by invitation only and must be approved by > consensus approval [1] of the active Apache NiFi PMC members on a vote open > for at least 72 hours. A Committer is considered inactive by their own > declaration or by not contributing in any form to the project for over six > months. An inactive member can become active again by reversing whichever > condition made them inactive ( *i.e.* , by reversing their earlier > declaration or by once again contributing toward the project's work). > Membership can be revoked by a unanimous vote of all the active PMC members > (except the member in question if they are a PMC member). > [1] www.apache.org/foundation/glossary.html#ConsensusApproval
-- Sean
