Typically what happens is that someone on the PMC will propose someone else as a new committer, on the PMC mailing list. Since this is a private list, the PMC members can feel free to exchange opinions on the proposed person, without fear that their opinion will be made public, and without fear that the proposed nominee might be offended / upset.
ok, fine :)
Once there seems to be concensus that said person would make a good new contributor to the project, someone on the PMC posts a vote on the public developer list, and the real vote takes place there. That is the vote that matters.
ah! thanks for pointing it out!
So is the vote "legal" ? Sean, Heath and Stan are selected as new committers, and they got their account right now.
Ok, for next steps we will follow that short guide from you ;)
-Matthias
-- Martin Cooper
Matthias
Are you not subscribed to that list?
The PMC list is only for committers who are then elected as PMC members.
I can't get to www.apache.org right at the moment to get you a pointer to the processes document (infrastructure remodelling is going on this weekend), but you should review those processes carefully.
Craig
We voted also Stan Silvert and Heath Borders as MyFaces Committers.
-Matthias
Oliver Rossmueller wrote:
If I got it right Sean is a MyFaces committer now. As Sean is
contributing a lot of stuff for MyFaces, +1 on that. We had some lively
discussions in the past, anyway: Sean, welcome on board!
But I've a formal question regarding things like that: who decides about
new committers? Isn't the policy to have a vote on topics like that? (I
searched the archives so I suppose I did not miss a vote)
Oliver
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