Its more clear now, thanks. On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Thiago H de Paula Figueiredo < thiag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I invite you to read http://apache.org/foundation/** > how-it-works.html#roles<http://apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#roles>. > Tapestry is an Apache Foundation project, so we follow the foundation rules > and customs. And one of its core values is meritocracy. I see committer > status, besides other things, as a way of rewarding someone's contributions > for the project, of saying we trust that person to directly commit code > when he/she has some code to contribute. > > Contribution to an open source project goes beyond commiting code. It's > also about community, writing in mailing lists, writing documentation, > writing blog posts, evangelization, etc. Bob Harner, for example, made a > huge improvement to one of the historically weak points of Tapestry, which > is documentation. I don't recall seeing him doing any commit (please > correct me if I'm wrong), but I do think he made a huge contribution to the > Tapestry project and I'm very grateful to him. > > I think I got invited for committer and PMC status for almost just my > participation in mailing lists. I did just one code contribution, the > initial URL rewriting code that was later improved by Robert Ziegler and > ended up being deprecated and removed later in favor of the Link Rewriter > API (and I'm not complaining, software is supposed to evolve over time). > And I still think I'm contributing to the project. > > I'll now answer your questions with my opinions and I'm not representing > the project or any other people with my answers. > > > On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 06:36:34 -0300, Dmitry Gusev <dmitry.gu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Still my question remains: >> >> What do you expect from a person when you invite him as a committer to >> Tapestry project? >> > > I expect this person to contribute the project in some way. > > > I mean in each specific case. >> > > I don't expect anything specific. > > > You just hope that he will do something useful someday with the core >> codebase >> or there is some concrete unit of work that you expect him to do? >> > > First option. > > > Or maybe that person asked to be committer and has some specific >> proposals for contribution to the code base? >> > > I don't recall any person asking to be a committer. Since I'm one and > started participating in these discussions, all committers and PMC members > were invited, not a single asking for it. > > -- > Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > dev-unsubscribe@tapestry.**apache.org<dev-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tapestry.apache.org > > -- Dmitry Gusev AnjLab Team http://anjlab.com
