On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 6:51 AM, michael <[email protected]> wrote: > Dennis E. Hamilton schrieb: >> Initial committers are automatically eligible to serve on the PPMC. >> >> Initial committers who have been set up with their Apache user names and >> have committer access can begin immediate participation on the PPMC. Simply >> subscribe to the [email protected] list using the @apache.org >> e-mail or the e-mail given on the iCLA. >> >> There are currently 19 committers who have not joined the PPMC. If you are >> set up as a committer and have not subscribed, please do so. >> >> If you are set up as a committer and do not wish to serve on the PPMC, >> please inform the PPMC by e-mail to [email protected]. >> >> For more information on PPMC activities and responsibilities, see >> <http://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html> and >> <http://incubator.apache.org/guides/ppmc.html>. >> >> - Dennis E. Hamilton >> > > I set my name on the "Initial Committers" list, because I want to > support OpenOffice.org in the future the same way as I have done in the > past. > > For my "contributions" (managing an running booths on events, supporting > users on maiinglists, reporting bugs etc.) there is no need to sign the > icla. > > I don't need an apache mail alias realy too. I've my "good old" > openoffice.org alias; that's good enough for me. > > So my question is: is there a way to become not a second class supporter > without signing the icla? >
Without signing an ICLA you cannot be a committer. A committer has direct write (commit) access to the repositories where we store the source code and other source files used for building the OpenOffice.org product. There are many ways to contribute to the project without being a committer and signing the ICLA. You have listed some of them. > There is another (may be silly) question: If I sign the icla and so on > ..., would I be (theoretically) able to dump code into the repository > without any checking by QA? > If you signed the ICLA and were voted in as a committer, then you could check in code directly. But this code would still be reviewed by other committers, and could potentially be rejected. And no one escapes QA! Regards, -Rob > Regards > Michael >
