Congratulations, Daniel! This is awesome! Mike.
On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 6:47 PM David Blevins <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- *Code*, *Write*, *Cycle*, *Run*, *Drink*, *Sleep ... Repeat* *InfoQ <https://www.infoq.com/> Java Queue Editor* https://about.me/mpredli <http://about.me/mpredli/> https://twitter.com/mpredli https://redlich.net/ https://javasig.org/ *Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler* *he/him/his*
