Hi, Here is a reply I ever sent to a fellow ASF member:
> For the committer bar, I always think of whether the candidate is easy to work with - make decisions with cautious while bravely, know when to ask for help. > > For too much new committers, it hurts when their contributions always need to revision especially trivial mistakes. If we elect a new committer while his/her contribution need more attention to avoid merged wrongly quickly, we lose the reason to invite the very person. > > Apache doesn't set up fine-grained permissions so it's extremely important not to approve something you're unsure with. You can have some metrics, for sure. But if you set the metrics too concrete, said N PRs + M Issues + X continuous active months, then you will get what the metrics look like. That is, even if a patch should be submitted in one PR, contributors may consider split in to many, etc. In the ASF, here is a community of peers [1]. So we (or at least me) mainly run the community based on trust and earned authority, not performance indicators. [1] https://www.apache.org/theapacheway/ Best, tison. Salz, Rich via general <[email protected]> 于2026年8月5日周三 19:44写道： > Are there any common metrics or guidelines with ASF that give guidance on > when someone should be added as a committer? Looking for something to point > other non-ASF projects to. > > Thanks! >
