Can the community guy also self nominate him/her self as well if he/she feels they feel they have graduated to being a committer ?
Thanks, -Nitin On 22/02/13 9:47 PM, "Joe Brockmeier" <j...@zonker.net> wrote: >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/
