Hi Team, As we recently vote two committers, someone came to me ask about the what's the criterial to become a committer. It's really a good question.
>From what I learned by participating bunch of Apache projects, the first criterial is you need to do enough contribution to earn enough credit for the project. For most case, it's means you submit enough patches which makes other committer tired to apply patch for you. But it's don't means you have to write lots of code to be the committer. The key value of the committer is* you are committed to the project and are productively contributing to its success.* Here is a great explanation about the community contribution[1] and anyone can become a committer in the Apache[2]. I'd like to quote some of the content and share with everyone here. The foundations of an Apache project and how the community contributes to it is sometimes referred to by the acronym CoPDoC: - (Co)mmunity - one must interact with others, and share vision and knowledge - (P)roject - a clear vision and consensus are needed - (Do)cumentation - without it, the stuff remains only in the minds of the authors - (C)ode - discussion goes nowhere without code There is nothing at The Apache Software Foundation that says you must write code in order to be a committer. Anyone who is supportive of the community and works in any of the CoPDoC areas is a likely candidate for committer ship. Apache is a meritocracy. That is, once someone has contributed sufficiently to any area of CoPDoC they can be voted in as a committer. Being a committer does not necessarily mean you commit code, it means you are committed to the project and are productively contributing to its success. One of the key contributions people can make to the community is through the support of a wide user base by assisting users on the user list, writing user oriented docs and ensuring the user viewpoint is understood by all developers. A main idea behind being a committer is the ability to be a mentor and to work cooperatively with your peers. Some of those users become committers in their own right. Some will test code, some will write documentation, some will do bug triage and some will write code. [1]https://community.apache.org/contributors/#contributing-a-project-copdoc [2]https://community.apache.org/contributors/#anyone-can-become-a-committer Willem Jiang Twitter: willemjiang Weibo: 姜宁willem
