Hey all, The thread earlier today about nominating committers has made me realize that the community at large may not feel welcome to nominate someone for committership to the PPMC.
Let me say that's emphatically *not* the case. Don't feel shy about approaching a PPMC member or the entire PPMC (via cloudstack-priv...@incubator.apache.org) to suggest that we consider a person as a committer. While we don't want to nominate on or deliberate on someone in public, there's no reason at all contributors and committers should feel shy about talking to the PPMC if they feel there's a person who should be a committer. These are the rough criteria that the PPMC uses to consider whether a person should be a committer or not: - Ability to work co-operatively with peers. - Ability to be a mentor. - Community - Committment - Personal skill/ability As you can see - it's more than the number of patches or emails that someone sends, though a healthy history of participation through code and discussion with the community is a factor. We also don't want to evaluate solely on code contributions - if someone is doing great work in docs, QA, marketing, etc. - we should also consider them as well. (It can sometimes be more difficult to do so, as we may not "see" some of that work, which is another reason why it's vital to be very public about planning and follow-up for activities that don't show up with "git blame".) Do note that we can't promise to give feedback about any discussions that happen on -private when considering a person as a committer. If you send something to cloudstack-private, you should get an "ack" that we've gotten your note, but we'll not be giving a follow-up on whether a vote was held or why someone may not be tapped as a committer at that time. (Though it might be kind of obvious if we do have a vote and they are accepted.) Finally - note that a discussion + vote + getting the appropriate paperwork and accounts set up can take a week or longer. Anyway - we do welcome suggestions from the rest of the community, we just need to be sure to handle things in a way that is respectful of the individuals who're being considered. Best, jzb -- Joe Brockmeier j...@zonker.net Twitter: @jzb http://www.dissociatedpress.net/
