Kalwit,
All the committers are invited by the PMC, you can reach out to
priv...@pulsar.apache.org if you have any problems.

Being a committer is not only about doing code contributions, but also
talking care of the project and the community.

I am sorry to hear that you feel that your contributions are blocked,
please start a new thread with this problem.

This is a community,  it is not a product managed by one single company.

Best regards
Enrico Olivelli

Il Mer 6 Mar 2024, 06:27 Matteo Merli <matteo.me...@gmail.com> ha scritto:

> I will not enter into debating the long list of grievances here, though I
> thought I needed to clarify at least 2 points:
>
> 1. You can ask any questions and direct any feedback to the PMC (and if
> you're not happy with the response you can take it all the way up to the
> ASF Board), but personal attacks are not OK here
>
> 2. I don't think it's good looking when you're reacting to people
> disagreeing with you by claiming they either are incompetent or have some
> hidden agenda. Perhaps trying to understand why they disagreed with you
> would be more helpful.
>
>
> Matteo
>
> --
> Matteo Merli
> <matteo.me...@gmail.com>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 7:22 PM Kalwit S <skalwit...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Congratulations Asaf.
> >
> > Btw, does the Apache project have any promotion criteria for committers?
> I
> > looked at Asaf's commits at
> > https://github.com/apache/pulsar/commits?author=asafm  and found that
> 99%
> > of the commits are simple documentation changes and 1% are related to PIP
> > monitoring. Most of the PIP monitoring involves adding plugins to
> existing
> > metrics APIs. He has also contributed to the PIP reviews, but his
> > contribution is more philosophical rather than technical. Most of his
> > comments are comparing Pulsar to other projects, rather than focusing on
> > the internal insights that Pulsar brings to the table. Our team has been
> > running production traffic using Apache Pulsar for over a year now. We
> have
> > tried several different versions of Pulsar (which we have to constantly
> > upgrade due to unknown issues in live production traffic) and have never
> > seen a stable version of Pulsar. Our team has also tried to submit
> multiple
> > enhancements and also PIP, but most of them are bogged down by reviewers
> > who are very new to Pulsar, might not understand messaging correctly, or
> > don’t find such enhancements useful for their usecases.
> > I would say that most of these reviewers are brand new to Pulsar, and
> > almost all of them are from the same company that is also the provider of
> > Pulsar. The same company controls Pulsar, prevents others from
> > contributing, and avoids having non-pulsar committers. This is why we
> > wanted to replace our existing Kafka cluster with Pulsar but we see no
> > difference in Pulsar provider and Confluent because Pulsar is also
> largely
> > controlled by one provider and this company's reviewers are not
> well-versed
> > in such systems.
> > In addition, we can see that almost all the reviewers are from the same
> > company, and PIP approval requires 3+ votes, which means only specific
> > reviewers belonging to one company participate and because of that, no
> one
> > can promote their improvements without the approval of the provider
> > company. The Pulsar community needs to break away from the monopolies of
> > the provider companies, start focusing on stable releases, and let other
> > companies make their enhancements to meet their requirements, and
> > experienced contributors or Pulsar creators should be active to prevent
> > unfairness in the community.
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 3:31 PM Kalwit S <skalwit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Congratulations.!
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 8:50 AM Lari Hotari <lhot...@apache.org>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> The Apache Pulsar Project Management Committee (PMC) has invited
> > >> Asaf Mesika https://github.com/asafm to become a committer and we
> > >> are pleased to announce that he has accepted.
> > >>
> > >> Welcome and Congratulations, Asaf Mesika!
> > >>
> > >> Please join us in congratulating and welcoming Asaf onboard!
> > >>
> > >> Best Regards,
> > >>
> > >> Lari Hotari
> > >> on behalf of the Pulsar PMC
> > >>
> > >
> >
>

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