Thanks for your response. This clarifies a lot. I just have two follow-up questions:
1. Does reviewing patches have any bearing? 2. Is it a requirement that the aggregate of patches submitted touch all the hive components? Also it'd be great to know if the other PMCs have a similar criteria? -Francis On Apr 4, 2013, at 4:06 PM, Edward Capriolo wrote: > Anecdotally, The criteria is patches/features and a track record of being > dedicated to hive. 10 smaller medium features might do it, or one big one > and five other bugs, or two patches and crazy dedication on the mailing > list. After enough work someone takes notice and nominates you. I did not > remember that "shepherd" language :) but the best bet is hanging out on the > hive IRC, I would volunteer but I am fairly bugged down ATM with things not > hive. > > > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Francis Christopher Liu <fc...@yahoo-inc.com >> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Given that moving HCatalog into Hive is well underway. As an HCatalog >> committer I'd like to better understand the path to becoming a Hive >> committer. Based on what I gleaned from email discussions. I'd like to >> verify the following: >> >> "HCatalog committers will be assigned shepherds" - How do we go about >> getting assigned one? >> >> "HCatalog committers are expected to become Hive Committers in 6-8 months" >> - Will there be a review done in 6-8 mos for the existing HCatalog >> committers. What would be the criteria? What happens if we don't get >> voted/nominated? >> >> I and a few of my colleagues (also HCat committers) are interested in >> becoming Hive committers and it would greatly help our effort if we could >> clarify the things discussed in the list. Feel free to point out anything I >> missed or misunderstood. >> >> -Francis >> >>
