On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Alex Huang <alex.hu...@citrix.com> wrote: > John, > > Should we comment by replying to this email or by adding comments to your > page? > > Also, > >> One question - we seem to have "committers" as well as "maintainers." >> What's the difference between the two? > > To me, committers are contributors. Maintainers are gatekeepers to make sure > the process and the design principals were followed before code is merged. > > --Alex
This is a discussion still - no need to move it away from this list IMO. John - thanks for writing this up. So there's a mixture of our own terminology and ASF terminology - and I propose that we start with a lexicon, and here's what I'd suggest: Contributors - people who contribute in one way or another to the project Committers - people who have commit access to the project's repo(s) Maintainers - volunteers from the pool of committers who have stepped forward to shepherd a single module. This is not a position of authority - but rather one of responsibility - to ensure coding standards are met, that accepted patches don't break things, etc. --David
