Hi Brent, You mentioned that we may commit by evangelizing, writing docs and tutorials etc... which I kind of agree with.
However, being a non-commiter I do not have access to Wiki to write - I do not have access to code to write method documentation and else. How do I contribute in such ways - Am I missing something here? Is there some other way to submit our contributions to Apache when we are not amongst one of a commiter - in the hope that one day we will be :) Apologies if this has been answered before or is put up at some place as a doc. My ignorance counts for now! Keep Walking, ~ Sandeep On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org > wrote: > Hi Brent, > > On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Brent Arnold <br...@brentarnold.com> > wrote: > > ...As a member of the Flex community I wanted to contribute in some way, > and > > since I'm not an initial committer or anything, I figured I could at > least > > do something like setup and host a website --> apacheflex.org. > > > > I realize that the core of the project will remain with apache.org, but > I > > felt that we could use a resource for the non-technical aspects of the > > project, i.e. a wiki, forums... > > IMO, based on my experience with many Apache projects, it would be > much better if this could happen *within* Apache Flex, as opposed to > potentially creating a split community. > > Many Apache projects have some committers who do not commit a single > line of code, but are still "committed" to the project by evangelizing > it, writing docs and tutorials, acting as user's advocates etc. > > So, It is totally possible for people involved in community activities > but not in code to become committers, and managing a community website > is IMO totally within scope of Apache Flex. > > In summary, if your community-related contributions could happen > *within* Apache Flex as opposed to *besides* it I think that would be > much more powerful. Contrary to what some might think, an Apache > project has a lot of freedom in how it organizes itself, and this > podling's mentors [1] are here to help make things happen as far as > the foundation is concerned, once a project's needs are clearly > identified. > > -Bertrand > > [1] http://incubator.apache.org/flex/team.html >
