Thanks Vinish! I just realized that there is another discussion thread on the same topic. For some reason, many of the xtable emails are landing on my spam folder so I was not aware of that discussion. Apologies for starting a new thread. I will monitor more closely my spam folder in the next few weeks.
Best, Stamatis On Tue, Jul 14, 2026 at 9:43 PM Vinish Reddy Pannala < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > >
