Dear community, Please share your thanks to Daniel Dias Dos Santos who has been invited by the TomEE PMC as a committer!
Thank you, Daniel, for all you've given the project with your many many PRs. You are indeed a big force behind our translation efforts. Much more than that, thank you so much for all your effort helping to enable others to contribute to the project. It's a rare thing. Many people new on an open source project limit their participation. If someone asks a question, they think, "Someone who knows more should probably answer that." If someone asks how they can help, they think, "Someone with more authority should probably answer that." If someone submits a PR, they think, "Someone with more experience/commit should probably review that." Reject that line of thinking. It doesn't help you or the project. The people you view as more capable and with more authority view themselves as servants. Servants that are just doing the best they can. You don't need permission or authority to be a servant. When you show willingness and bravery to help others an also be a servant, you quickly become one of their favorite people. The trick; it's not about your ability to help, it's about the person who needs help. Focus on them, not on you. It's not "do I know everything about x", it's "do I know anything about x that can help this person." If there's any small thing you can do to help them, do it. If you see they are not getting a response, then you have a wide open range of ways to help them; basically anything that isn't silence. Even a simple, "I'm new here too, but happy to team up and learn together. I can't figure out x, do you have any ideas?" Thank you, Daniel, for having the bravery to help so many on the project. You are now going to cross a magical line were people are going to look at you and think, "we sure, he can help/do/contribute like that because he's a committer. I'm not so I can't." Your new job is to convince them otherwise :) -- David Blevins http://twitter.com/dblevins http://www.tomitribe.com
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