Hi folks! We need to decide on a couple of points wrt how our community will make use of the roles recognized by the ASF.
* do we want committer and PMC status linked or distinct? * what do we expect from folks in those roles? Personally, I'd like to have a relatively low friction, well documented path to committership while leaving PMC a distinct role. I'd like granting of committer status to mean that someone understands our norms well enough to handle contributions and guide a new contributor. Ideally, I'd like a well documented path that a casual contributor can complete in about a month. By well documented, I mean some clearly defined goalposts, e.g. "review new contributions and make sure they meet these guidelines; you'll be practiced enough when existing committers regularly don't have additional feedback on the contribution." Not a checklist of "do this X times" but something more definitive than "act like a committer." By casual contributor I mean either a hobbyist or someone whose job doesn't consist of primarily working on our project. Essentially, someone who can only spend an hour or two at a time on things, and at most a handful of hours in any given week. What do others have in mind?
