This is huge. Congrats Daniel
> On Jun 26, 2020, at 5:37 AM, Michael Redlich <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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*
