Hi everyone, To introduce myself, I'm a ZooKeeper committer and PMC
member. I'm used to the process of selecting committers for ZooKeeper,
but I'm new to the incubator process, so I would appreciate if the
community could shed some light here.
I have read the guide to participation:
http://incubator.apache.org/guides/participation.html
and I understand from there that people shouldn't simply jump in as an
initial committer without a short introduction and without
acknowledgment from the proposer. Thanks to the ones who followed the
protocol and introduced themselves.
Our expectation when we submitted the proposal was that the initial
set of committers would comprise the people who have initially
contributed to get the current code to this stage, and we were not
expecting arbitrary requests to join the initial list of committers.
Of course, as a potential Apache project (now potentially incubator,
but looking forward to being TLP in the future), we are ready to work
towards building a community, which includes granting the status of
committer to contributors. However, we'd like new committers to earn
their status by showing commitment to the community and demonstrating
technical merit.
We understand that it is important to have other people who are
experienced with ASF to mentor the project, and we don't want to drive
these people away or anyone else who is willing to contribute.
Committership and mentorship sound like different issues, though, and
we would like committership in general (ASF experienced or not) to be
earned.
I was also checking some other threads that discuss the issue, and I
believe my message reflects some of the points in previous threads, so
I'm linking them here:
http://markmail.org/message/hfy2clgc3ddwfjnz
http://markmail.org/message/nkfugts33sw37gwf
What exactly is expected and how should we proceed?
Thanks,
-Flavio
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