This is excellent news Dominic!
On 11 March 2013 14:22, Dominic Barnes <domi...@dbarnes.info> wrote: > I would love to contribute to Fauxton. (I've learned some Erlang but don't > feel proficient yet) I love CouchDB and I'd like to contribute right away. > :) > > - Dominic Barnes > > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 2:08 AM, Garren Smith <g...@redcometlabs.com> wrote: > > > Another way that you can contribute is to help us with Fauxton. Fauxton > is > > all javascript, css and html so no Erlang required. > > If you are interested in contributing let us know and we can walk you > > through the code and get you started. > > There is plenty of low hanging fruit to get you started. > > > > Garren > > > > On 09 Mar 2013, at 11:01 PM, Noah Slater <nsla...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > Dear community, > > > > > > I believe we have done a poor job of recognising merit in this project. > > As > > > a PMC member, I would like to apologise to you for that. Over the > course > > of > > > this year, I hope to rectify the situation. But I need your help. > > > > > > I would like to invite the whole community to start making committer > > > nominations to the PMC. > > > > > > The sorts of things we're looking for: > > > > > > * Ability to work co-operatively with peers > > > * Ability to mentor others > > > * An understanding of community > > > * Positive, helpful attitude > > > * Repeated contribution to the project > > > > > > Committers do not have to be coders, despite the title. A committer is > > > someone with recognised merit within the community. That's the long and > > > short of it. Naturally, being a software project, most committers are > > also > > > coders. > > > > > > But you can earn your commit bit by: > > > > > > * Doing QA work > > > * Helping out on JIRA, doing triage > > > * Helping people out on the mailing lists or on IRC > > > * Contributing to the wiki or docs > > > * Blogging, organising meet-ups, or giving presentations > > > * Doing community out-reach or evangelism > > > > > > And, of course, submitting patches is good too... But is by no means > > > required! > > > > > > So, please ask yourself: > > > > > > * Is there someone who's helped you out before, or who is doing a lot > of > > > good work, who isn't currently a committer? If so, please send an email > > to > > > priv...@couchdb.apache.org and tell us why you think they should be a > > > committer. > > > > > > * Are you put off because you don't know Erlang? Me too! I've not > written > > > a single line of Erlang for CouchDB, and I've been a committer for > half a > > > decade. See the next bit of this email... > > > > > > If you are interested in learning, we have the > > > erlang@couchdb.apache.orglist. That is a dedicated resource for people > > > wanting to learn Erlang with > > > CouchDB. The core devs are here to take you through the code, and get > you > > > started. > > > > > > But if you're not interested in learning Erlang, do any of the other > > areas > > > of contribution sound like your thing? > > > > > > Great! Let us know about it. Or better yet, just start doing it. There > is > > > no need to check with anybody before you start doing something. Just > > post a > > > note to this list with an outline of what you propose to do, and then > > start > > > doing it. If people have a problem, they will speak up. > > > > > > This is how I try to operate. I get an idea about something which would > > be > > > good for the project (like this email) and I just do it and hope it > > doesn't > > > upset anyone. There is no special status needed to do this. We can all > do > > > it! The only thing a committer can do that a non-committer can't do is > > > check code directly into the repository. > > > > > > Everything else is wide open... So what are you waiting for? ;) > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > -- > > > NS > > > > > -- NS
