On Jul 3, 2006, at 1:35 AM, ant elder wrote:
There's a number of people who've been contributing patches to
Tuscany for
some time now so we should start thinking about what it takes to be
made a
committer.
An old Incubator webpage had this to say (the page isn't available
right
now):
"If a developer has contributed a significant number of high-quality
patches, is interested in continuing the contribution, has
demonstrated the
ability to work well with others under the Apache guidelines, it
may be
proposed to grant that developer commit access."
I think it should take a bit more than code to be made a committer -
participation in mailing list discussions, the weekly IRC chats,
votes, and
things like that.
Agree with being more than just code. One thing though I would say is
people shouldn't be required to do all things, i.e. some may not be
able to make IRC or just not feel comfortable "speaking up". I do
think, though, it's really important to participate in things other
than code such as the mailing lists. I do however, think we should
weight things towards "material" contributions (not just code, it
could be documentation, the web site, etc.) when deciding on
commitership.
And its not just code, high-quality patches could include
things for documentation or web site. Right now i think it
shouldn't be to
hard to become a committer, if someone has been demonstrating an
interest in
the project for a while we should encourage that.
It seems to me there are two types of commiters. Those that make
substantial contributions over a shorter period of time and those
that make smaller, incremental contributions over a longer-time
frame. I think we should accommodate both and perhaps outline it in
documentation that could be put on the web site. For newbies coming
to the project, it would be nice to be able to read what was expected
to become a commiter.
Ant, are you willing to take a stab at doing this since you've been
making some good points w.r.t the community aspects of commitership?
Jim
What do others think?
...ant
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