Re: [DISCUSS] Non Coding Committers

2022-02-11 Thread Sharan Foga
Hi All Thanks very much to everyone who took the time to provide feedback and share their views on this topic. It seems to me like there is a general consensus around it and it's great to hear that the PMC is aware and actively working on it. A community is an evolving thing and so adapting to

Re: [DISCUSS] Non Coding Committers

2022-02-09 Thread Benjamin Lerer
Thanks a lot Sharan, Patrick and Lorina. It is a perfectly valid point that the PMC members have recognized for some time already and are actively working on. 😊 Le mar. 8 févr. 2022 à 23:07, Lorina Poland a écrit : > +1 to this conversation, from a Docs wonk. :-) > > On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 1:40

Re: [DISCUSS] Non Coding Committers

2022-02-08 Thread Lorina Poland
+1 to this conversation, from a Docs wonk. :-) On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 1:40 PM Patrick McFadin wrote: > Sharan has done a good job shining a spotlight on something that has > created a weird bottleneck in the project. Docs and the Cassandra website > are all in-tree, but it takes somebody who pro

Re: [DISCUSS] Non Coding Committers

2022-02-08 Thread Patrick McFadin
Sharan has done a good job shining a spotlight on something that has created a weird bottleneck in the project. Docs and the Cassandra website are all in-tree, but it takes somebody who probably isn't even working on those things to commit any changes. Dinesh nailed it. It's silly. I'm sure the PMC

Re: [DISCUSS] Non Coding Committers

2022-02-06 Thread Mick Semb Wever
Thank you Sharan for sharing. > So here in Apache Cassandra I see there is a whole lot of activity > happening around the website, marketing, project promotion, blogs, social > media - these activities are all contributions to the project. If there are > contributions happening in the project tha

Re: [DISCUSS] Non Coding Committers

2022-02-05 Thread Dinesh Joshi
Hi Sharan, Thank you for the feedback. Couple points that immediately struck me was the use of the word 'committer'. This term is closely associated with code contributions and therefore causes confusion. I understand that ASF defines it differently but it is unfortunately overloaded. Perhaps t

[DISCUSS] Non Coding Committers

2022-02-05 Thread sharanf
Hi All I mentioned a while ago that I would start a discussion about having Committers on the project that can focus on non coding contributions. Let me start by saying that I wouldn't be doing what I do at the ASF today if the first project I contributed to (Apache OFBiz) had not recognised