Per - keep contributing. Your contributions so far have not gone unnoticed - you've been spotted. At least from here in New York. :)
Otis -- SOLR Performance Monitoring - http://sematext.com/spm/index.html Search Analytics - http://sematext.com/search-analytics/index.html On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Per Steffensen <st...@designware.dk> wrote: > ** > Ok thanks. Guess you are not ready to nominate me for now. But who are the > nominators? Are you a nominator, Mark? And how to get nominated - do I have > to ask (as I did today) or do I just have to wait until a nominator gets > the idea about me as a committer by himself? > > > Regards, Per Steffensen > > Mark Miller skrev: > > On Nov 26, 2012, at 11:51 AM, Per Steffensen <st...@designware.dk> > <st...@designware.dk> wrote: > > > > I am a very experinced programmer with a long record as architect, designer, > mentor etc. Is there a chance that I could become committer? You will end up > happy - and so will I! :-) > > > You have to build up enough merit in the project to get someone to nominate > you. Getting someone to nominate you can come about in a few different ways, > but generally it requires seeing a good number of JIRA issues through, being > around long enough to learn and integrate with the current community vibe, > and sometimes other things like helping out on the mailing list, helping > others get JIRA issues in, etc. > > You have to build the merit in the community - merit doesn't transfer from > outside of the project. > > You can imagine why we are careful about this - we want to make sure the > community grows in a healthy manner and that the others we bring into the > community are a nice fit with the rest of us. We want to make sure some of > the Apache way has seeped into your mind and certainly that a lot of the > current community vibe has as well. IMO, the best committers tend to act like > committers before they are voted in. Once you earn the trust of another > committer or two, and contribute in digestible pieces, you can generally > build a relationship that gets your patches committed quite quickly. Once a > committer comes to trust your code, he tends to have an easier time > reviewing. Then he starts committing more of your stuff. Then he thinks, man, > this would just be easier if this guy was a committer. > > In any event, simply continuing to contribute and getting issues into Solr > over a decent length of time is generally enough to be nominated at some > point. Though it really all depends on the nominators in the end. And then of > course you must be voted in by the PMC. > > - Mark > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > > > >
