Congratulations Daniel. You deserve this after all the hard work
you’ve put in. Well deserved :)David. ---- On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 23:46:46 +0100
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
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