I cannot see how someone could be a an effective community member without 
joining the community's communication channel. That just seems a practical 
necessity. Especially if someone is to be given the keys, to become a 
committer. They need to be there to respond, e.g. if they were to break things.

Upayavira

On Fri, 2 Nov 2018, at 8:53 AM, Dmitriy Pavlov wrote:
> Dear ASF Fellows,
> 
> I am PMC member of Apache Ignite, but I joined PMC relatively recently. I
> need help from you again in regarding the Apache Way.
> 
> Question is related to comittership for community members,
> 
> - who are not visible on dev/user list, have a couple of threads they
> participated
> 
> - but contributed a significant feature or many fixes.
> 
> Usually, such contributors work for a commercial company with sufficient
> product expertise, so they probably collaborate with experts, but outside
> space of Apache.
> 
> 
> Several guides and policies
> 
> https://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#meritocracy
> 
> http://community.apache.org/newcommitter.html
> 
> and others say that PMC member needs to evaluate communication and
> cooperative work with peers, ability to be a mentor, behavior in
> disagreement.
> 
> 
> Communication is required by Apache Ignite guide
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/IGNITE/Committership+Bar+Guidance
> 
> Simultaneously
> https://community.apache.org/contributors/#contributing-a-project-copdoc
> 
> contains a mention someone who contributed sufficiently to ‘ANY’ area may
> become a committer. So why can't we count code only contribution without
> contribution to community/project?
> 
> There are several cases when I may disagree with other PMC members.
> 
> I insist candidate should communicate in ASF space because A)
> community-first and motto: B) “If it didn’t happen on the mailing list it
> didn’t happen.” For such cases then contributors collaborate outside Apache
> space we can still accept a contribution, still appreciate contributor’s
> effort and say thank you; but not promote as a committer. But I may
> over-estimate the role of collaboration in the ASF. I may be too strict in
> understanding ASF principles.
> 
> But PMCs who suggest such comittership candidates may counter-argument
> 
> - those cool developers don't like to communicate (they may be a little bit
> uncomfortable with public communications/tries to avoid spam/any other
> reasons they have).
> 
> - If he or she will communicate often, then he or she will never have time
> to write a code.
> 
> So what do you think? Is it required to communicate with the rest of the
> community publicly more than a couple of times to become a committer?
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Dmitriy Pavlov

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org

Reply via email to