I'll throw in my +1 too. Folks that provide doc are just as valuable as folks writing code as it delivers value for the consumer of the project. Its value to the project being delivered in different ways.
Matt Hogstrom m...@hogstrom.org A Day Without Nuclear Fusion Is a Day Without Sunshine On Mar 19, 2012, at 10:47 AM, Joe Schaefer wrote: > +1 Dan, people really do learn from the codebase as they whittle > on it. I know when I first got commit at the ASF I knew precious > little about C, but after a few years of work here finally got the hang > of it. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Daniel Kulp <dk...@apache.org> >> To: general@incubator.apache.org >> Cc: Alan Gates <ga...@hortonworks.com>; Jukka Zitting >> <jukka.zitt...@gmail.com> >> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 10:42 AM >> Subject: Re: Keeping an eye out for new committers >> >> On Friday, March 16, 2012 04:28:06 PM Alan Gates wrote: >>> With my mentor hat on, this is a poke to remind you (the PPMC) that >> it's >>> your job to be on the lookout for contributors that may be ready to >>> become committers. >>> >>> I look for several things when I consider making someone a committer: >>> >>> 1) Patches, are they contributing quality features and/or bug fixes. They >>> don't have to have written a new subsystem, but you want to look for >>> patches that demonstrate understanding in some area, not just spelling >>> fixes in error messages, etc. >> >> I just want to mention that patches that fix "just spelling fixes in error >> messages, etc." shouldn't be discounted so harshly. In CXF, one of >> the >> historically most active contributors got started by deluging us with such >> patches. We made him a committer (so he could fix all of that himself) >> which helped build his confidence and he's expanded out from there. His >> work just on the spelling mistakes and messages and stuff has been a big >> help in making things "feel" more professional, especially in a >> projects >> where a large number of people don't have english as their native language. >> >> >> All contributions are welcome and have value. Just because it may not be >> technical in nature doesn't make them have any less value from a >> "should >> this person be a committer" standpoint. >> >> But the rest of this is good. :-) >> >> >> Dan >> >> >> >> >> >>> One good way to find what patches a >>> contributor has done is to look over the contributor report from JIRA. >>> You can get this by going to your project's JIRA, and under the reports >>> drop down on the right side, click on "Contribution Report". >>> >>> 2) Emails, comments on JIRA, etc. giving others feedback, answering user >>> questions, etc. Again you can use the contribution report to see JIRA >>> comments. You can find emails in the mailing list archives for your >>> project. >>> >>> 3) Is this person good to work with? Do they give constructive feedback? >>> Do they take feedback well? >>> >>> 4) Does this person seem likely to stay involved? All Apache positions >>> are volunteer and so we can't ask people to sign up for a period of >> time >>> or promise to be around forever. But if I sense that a contributor is >>> just fixing one problem they need fixed, I usually wait to see if they >>> continue their involvement after that issue is addressed before >>> nominating them as a committer. >>> >>> Alan. >>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> -- >> Daniel Kulp >> dk...@apache.org - http://dankulp.com/blog >> Talend Community Coder - http://coders.talend.com >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
