Yes, there's an interesting idea that came up on members@: should there be a status in Spark that doesn't include the commit bit or additional 'rights', but is formally recognized by the PMC? An MVP, VIP, Knight of the Apache Foo project. I don't think any other project does this, but don't think it's _prohibited_. This could recognize long-time contributors of any kind (code, docs, external) for whom it's not yet right to make a committer. The point would be recognition, because there's really nothing short of that the project can formally do. I personally am not sure it adds enough to justify the process, and may wade too deeply into controversies about whether this is just extra gatekeeping vs something helpful.
On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 11:09 PM Sean Owen <sro...@apache.org> wrote: > > (Let's move this thread to dev@ now as it is a general and important > community question. This was requested on members@) > > On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 10:20 PM Matei Zaharia <matei.zaha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Our text on becoming a committer already says that we want committers who > > focus on our docs: https://spark.apache.org/committers.html. Just working > > on docs / books outside the project doesn’t make as much sense IMO. > > > > Matei > > > > On Aug 1, 2019, at 8:10 PM, Reynold Xin <r...@databricks.com> wrote: > > > > Not sure if ASF allows this but we can start some sort of “MVP” program > > recognizing non-code contributors... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org
