After some recent discussion around committership votes on the private
list, we realized that we needed a clearer description of what criteria
we use when voting in new committers. The following description came out
of this. I won't rehash the whole prior discussion, but I'd like to
offer the result here with the intention of getting feedback, answering
any questions, and hopefully proposing a formal vote on this soon:
Qualities we look for:
- A candidate must demonstrate an understanding of how our project
is structured and how we work.
- A candidate must communicate openly about work planned/in-progress.
- A candidate must demonstrate expertise in a significant area of
the existing code base.
- A candidate must demonstrate an extended commitment to the
project.
Tests for these qualities:
- contacting the right team members to discuss changes
- actively soliciting feedback for significant changes or new
development
- multiple independent contributions over a period of several months
- sponsorship by someone who has worked directly with the candidate
reviewing and committing patches
- detailed positive feedback from those who have worked directly
with the candidate
- a record of patches that maintain or improve the quality of the
code without the need for feedback or rework
--Rafael
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