On 11/05/2015 03:13 AM, Martijn Dashorst wrote: >> PMC membership has nothing to do with technical mastery of the codebase, >> which is why I cringe every time I see people talking about what "the bar" >> should be. It's about trust. If you trust someone to work the gears on a >> release, >> that has considerable impact on the well-being of a project, and personally >> meets my definition of "belongs on the PMC". > > We have a new PMC member who hasn't done much (if any) work on the actual > code base of Wicket, but runs an awesome twitter account [1] posting > new projects > and applications using our framework, posting job listings etc. We wanted him > to > continue to do so and acknowledged that he found sites and jobs we were not > doing, so it was only logical to ask him to become a PMC member and our true > social manager! > > We *trust* him to do good with the twitter account and wanted to give him the > official seal of trust by inviting him to the PMC. If and when he finds time > to > contribute in other ways, we will be welcoming.
You have no idea how glad I am to hear that this sort of thing is happening. Having a deep technical understanding of the code base should *not* be a blocker for people to be recognized for their contributions to projects. ASF projects need help in a lot of ways besides code - glad you've found someone who is lending a hand there. (I checked out the twitter feed, they really are doing a great job.) Best, jzb -- Joe Brockmeier j...@zonker.net Twitter: @jzb http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
