Hi Stamatis, Thanks for raising this, and agreed on both points: we should publish the guidelines to the website, and avoid exact numbers that point contributors in the wrong direction.
I've put up a first draft that does exactly that - no numeric thresholds, framed around sustained, merit-based contribution. https://github.com/apache/incubator-xtable/pull/845 I've also added the ASF adding-committers guide you linked as a reference on the page. Please review and suggest anything to change, here or on the PR. Thanks, Vinish On Tue, Jul 14, 2026 05:08 AM, Stamatis Zampetakis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi team, > > In the past few weeks I got a few messages from certain individuals asking > for guidance on what it takes to become a committer/PMC to the XTable > project. > > It would be a good idea to establish some rough guidelines on what's needed > and publish them to the website so that people don't have to reach out > personally to me or other PMC members. > > Personally, I feel that mentioning exact numbers (e.g., 3 commits, 2 > reviews, 10K lines of code) is not really needed and pushes the > contributors to the wrong direction. However, some projects do have a > minimum set of requirements (eg., contributing to the project for more than > X months) so in this case it makes sense to document them. > > Some general guidelines for adding committers can be found in [1] which can > serve as a baseline. > > Best, > Stamatis > > [1] https://community.apache.org/pmc/adding-committers.html >
