On 25 Oct 2005, at 02:11, Chris Hostetter wrote:
1) Wah-Hoo! Yonik is definitely one of the smartest guys I've
worked with
in the past few years.
First, congrats to Yonik and welcome!
2) On the subject of commiting and becoming a commiter: I've
noticed a few
questions recently about why/when patches can/will-be commited; and
Yonik's new status has me wondering about how people become
commiters, and
what guidelines exist for commiters to know how/when to accept
patches.
As far as I know there is nothing concrete. Each project governs
things as they desire. When a contributor has posted a critical mass
of high quality patches and keeps active, they are a good candidate
to propose a vote for committership.
As for accepting patches - with Lucene I'm personally very
conservative with applying patches. I prefer to have approval of a
more senior committer - I don't consider myself expert at the lower-
levels of Lucene and do not want to risk any adverse affects.
This seems like something that would be usefull to toss in the Wiki
(with
a pointer from the FAQ).
I'm not sure we can codify the criteria very clearly - it's a very
subjective case-by-case sort of thing.
If you, or someone you respect in the community, desires
committership - the best thing to do is be vocal about it :)
Erik
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