On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected] > wrote:
> It is important to distinguish between contributors generally and the > subset of contributors who happen to be committers. There are technical > prerequisites and prerogatives to being a committer. > Might be good to have it on the wiki as on defined roles. I am sure apache has that somewhere but is easier to point people to an OOo structure site. Right now we only hang a list of people involved with the project. > Many people have been contributors to OpenOffice.org when it was under the > stewardship of Sun and Oracle. Many of those individuals, and others, are > contributing here via the ooo-dev list, the community wiki, and even > submission of patches. Contribution of code and patches and bug reports is > currently rather limited until the code base has moved and there is an issue > tracker in place. There is opportunity for extensive contribution of all > kinds. > > All contributions matter and a lively contributor community is critical. > The committers simply have more they can do with regard to making changes > directly rather than submitting them to a committer for review and > acceptance. > > Not all committers are on the PPMC (and, although rare in practice, not all > PPMC members need be committers). The Initial Committers are also invited > to be PPMC members and it is their option to join or not. Ordinarily, > invitation of a committer to join the PPMC is done separately. > > The PPMC deals with private matters (e.g., the invitation of committers and > PPMC members) and security issues that require discretion and secrecy > leading up to resolution. > > It is my impression (based on no experience at all) that when issues come > to a vote on the ooo-dev list, PPMC member votes are binding and the votes > of other project contributors and observers are not, although I am confident > that non-binding votes are given careful attention. > > - Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: eric b [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 10:12 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Commiters list > > Hi, > > > Le 14 juil. 11 à 18:50, Frank Peters a écrit : > > > Eric, > > > >> On this page http://incubator.apache.org/projects/ > >> openofficeorg.html , > >> there is a list of commiters. So far, I participated to the incubator > >> project, and I thought I was counted in the list. > > > > are you a committer (i.e. do you have commit rights)? > > > > > I'm listed on the incubator wiki page : http://wiki.apache.org/ > incubator/OpenOfficeProposal > > As "Initial Commiter" > > > > >> Did I miss something ? How to be added in the list ? > > > > Become a committer. I think you will need to be invited by the PPMC. > > > I'm not sure to understand the "not invited". As reminder, I'm > OpenOffice.org developer since 2005, and did a lot for OpenOffice.org. > > I really wonder what happens. > > > > > But for that, you will need to sign a CLA which you do not want to > > do as you stated earlier. > > > > In the current list, not everybody signed the ICLA, so why is it > important ? > > > Regards, > Eric Bachard > > > -- > qɔᴉɹə > Education Project: > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project > Projet OOo4Kids : http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/Main_Page > L'association EducOOo : http://www.educoo.org > Blog : http://eric.bachard.org/news > > > > > > > -- *Alexandro Colorado* *OpenOffice.org* Español http://es.openoffice.org
