On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 8:28 PM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote:
> ... > >> such people can earn merit by becoming involved with the community and > > helping out where they can. > > > > In theory, that sounds good, but as a practical matter, how many people > > that have ever been on the ASF board of directors neither know/knew, nor > > use(d) any programming languages in getting there? IOW, they got there > > exclusively on their ability to write documentation, do community > > relations, or utilize other non-coding skills? > > It has happened many times. When I was a committer on Apache Cocoon we > voted Arje Cahn as a committer for his contributions to the project which > had nothing to do with coding. He was voted in as an ASF member for pretty > much the same reason. > It has happened. I was voted as a committer for simply answering questions (and it stuck). I know of at least one or two others. But we should be honest here. It isn't all that common. It should be much more common.
