+1 from me on taking into account diverse activities, but I must declare a vested interest. I'm encouraged by this discussion, since I'd like to become a committer, and have had that niggling feeling that if it's notches on the jira bedpost that are the primary measure, then it's going to take a while longer than I had hoped. I have been doing a number of things which are material contributions which haven't resulted in direct code updates.
Regards, Kelvin. On 7/3/06, Jim Marino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- Best Regards Kelvin Goodson
