On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Hyrum K Wright wrote:
> Quick question for ComDev folks: Over in the Subversion project, we've
> had a number of people who have contributed in somewhat intangible
> ways...
> ...What's a good way to reward these individuals? If somebody were
> submitting patches
I may be speaking out of turn, but why not elect them directly to the
PMC? If they make a giant non-coding contribution, they belong on the
committee even if they aren't committers.
Of course, you could avoid any unhappy reactions to this by electing
them as committers (a la ted) first and then as
Put them in the list of contributors at least.
And frankly, I was asked to be a committer on Mahout largely based on
similar contributions (with some code). I have subsequently
contributed quite a bit of code, but the original offer was made somewhat
speculatively. If these contributors of yours
Quick question for ComDev folks: Over in the Subversion project, we've
had a number of people who have contributed in somewhat intangible
ways. There are several denizens of the us...@subversion.apache.org
mailing list who know how to use Subversion far beyond many of the
developers' capabilities,
