I think telling people that they’re being considered as committers early on is
a good idea, but AFAIK we’ve always had individual committers do that with
contributors who were doing great work in various areas. We don’t have a
centralized process for it though — it’s up to whoever wants to work
That's fair, and it's great to find high quality contributors. But I also
feel the two projects have very different background and maturity phase.
There are 1300+ contributors to Spark, and only 300 to Beam, with the vast
majority of contributions coming from a single company for Beam (based on
my
As someone who floats a bit between both projects (as a contributor) I'd
love to see us adopt some of these techniques to be pro-active about
growing our committer-ship (I think perhaps we could do this by also moving
some of the newer committers into the PMC faster so there are more eyes out
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