First off, I recommend this reading this page to understand what the Apache NiFi PMC draws from when making a decision
http://community.apache.org/contributors/index.html I thought it would be helpful for me to walk through how I interpret that guidance, and what that means for NiFi. For those that didn't read, there are four aspects of contribution that are worth considering someone for committership: community, project, documentation and code. Really, the committer decision comes down to: has this person built up enough merit in the community that I have a high degree of confidence that I trust him/her with write access to the code and website. Given that merit and trust are subjective measures, how does the PMC make those decisions? We, the PMC, have attempted to make this as evidence-based as possible. When discussing a contributor for being considered for committer access, we attempt to put together a corpus of interaction in the community, both negative and positive, and use this as a basis for discussion. The interaction with the community can include: - Interaction on the mailing lists - is this person helping others? Is this person using the community to enhance his/her understanding of the project or the apache foundation? - Code contributions - is this person contributing code that advances the project? How important is the code? Is this a niche capability, a core capability? How challenging was the code? Was the code improving the quality of the project (bug fix, adding tests, or code that comes along with comprehensive unit and/or integration tests). How does this person react to criticism of his/her contribution? Is this person reacting positively to patch or pull request feedback? Is the code high quality? - Assisting others with their contributions - is this person providing useful comments on pull requests or patches? Is this person testing new features/functionality and providing feedback on the mailing list? - Participating in project votes and discussions: is this person helping to verify releases? Providing input to the roadmap? Is this person using the lists to get feedback on features he/she plan to implement? - Documentation contributions - is this person helping the community by blogging? providing patches to the web page or in-app docs? contributing to the project wiki? - Other community/project activities - has this person organized or talked at a meetup? has this person briefed at a conference or workshop? - "Going over and beyond" factor - Has this person done something exceptional to demonstrate dedication to the project? e.g. did this person go to great lengths to fix or diagnose a critical issue? An underlying theme of the above: the ASF code of conduct [1] is taken seriously by the PMC - while interacting with the community, was this person adhering to the guidelines? Are we seeing a pattern of openness, empathy, inquisitiveness, and willingness to cooperate? Has this person shown remorse for interaction that may have violated the code of conduct and a positive trend since? It helps for a committer to have evidence supporting all four aspects of contribution. It also helps to have demonstrated this over an extended period of time. I personally like to see at least 3 months of strong contribution. This is a start of the discussion, I'm hoping others can weigh in. 1. http://www.apache.org/foundation/policies/conduct.html Tony
