Active committers maybe? With git anyone can be a committer anyways.
For instance, I have been doing a lot of work on activemq-6 and I'm not part of the PMC. I have a pretty good knowledge on Messaging and I think I would be a helpful hand on either activemq-5 or 6. On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Jim Gomes <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't think every committer should be on the PMC by default. Not all may > want that responsibility, and may not be ready for it, either. Lowering the > bar to entry may be useful, but this seems too low. > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2015, 7:36 AM Hadrian Zbarcea <[email protected]> wrote: > >> They can indicate the same by doing whatever they want to do, nobody >> stops them to self elect and do whatever they like, scratch an itch. >> They prove that they understand the ASF values and they get voted in. I >> am not ok with providing blanket binding votes in this community where >> proper mentorship has been a problem. I do encourage however any >> committer to be proactive and do all the management he's interested in. >> I encourage any contributor to keep contributing, improve their skills, >> and *their* project (activemq) and become, if they want, committers >> (speaking of which, doesn't necessarily need to be only code, I got a >> lot of complaints lately about documentation). They all got my full >> support. >> >> -1 (binding) >> Hadrian >> >> >> >> On 01/29/2015 08:42 AM, Gary Tully wrote: >> > In that way, committers that are interested in project management >> > duties can indicate same with their votes. Effectively self elect to >> > step up to the task. >> > >> > What is the down side? >> >> -- Clebert Suconic http://community.jboss.org/people/[email protected] http://clebertsuconic.blogspot.com
