thank you very much David :) -- *Daniel Dias dos Santos* Java Developer SouJava & JCP Member GitHub: https://github.com/Daniel-Dos Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/danieldiasjava Twitter: http://twitter.com/danieldiasjava
Em sex., 26 de jun. de 2020 às 13:58, David Salter <da...@davidsalter.uk> escreveu: > > > > > 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<david.blev...@gmail.com> 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 > > > > > > >
