What Andy said, as well as: http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#meritocracy
-Rob On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Andy Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Ted Rolle, Jr. wrote: >> I'd like to participate in the OOo project. >> I'm a programmer and documentation editor. >> >> Ted > > A person does not request an id. Anyone can contribute to OOo by > sending patches to code or the web sites to this list. When the > committers see the patches they include them in the proper location. > After review of the contributions the PPMC/Committers have the option to > invite the person to be a committer. If the person accepts the > invitation they are then allowed to select the user id and then make > direct commits to the code/web site. The exception to the id > requirement is on the ooousers wiki page where anyone can sign up and > make additions or changes. > > HTH > Andy >
