Folks, A seemingly complex and long path to become a committer can drive away potential candidates shortly after they start contributing to the project. Around a year ago Jim Jagielski raised a concern about the high entry bar we have in the project. We heard the feedback and decided to liberalize our process for nominating new committers via simplifying the committer checklist.
1) We have relaxed our committer candidate guidelines, see the updated version [1]. 2) Committer checklist [2] is a thing of the past: candidates are no longer supposed to fill it in. 3) Nominators are encouraged to use template [3] when proposing new candidates. Alex on behalf of Mesos PMC. [1] https://github.com/apache/mesos/blob/07ab5abb1db91fda3fa118083dc15065f314a3fd/docs/committer-candidate-guidelines.md [2] https://github.com/apache/mesos/blob/69f3744f3b2f8e2a8116f023020696950af573ad/docs/committer-candidate-checklist.md [3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RBShT_kSqWqvG7HOzQhpNINGd17ZkJXGY7vMyxTZZXg/edit
