merit is merit, why would the barrier for new committers be different here than in any other project? If the ramp up and time to learn the projects source is the barrier then it is on us to help make it easier through documentation, clear project roadmap and entry level consumable tickets to help those new contributors get a footing
-Jake On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 7:27 PM, Konstantin Boudnik <c...@apache.org> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:43AM, Todd Lipcon wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Atri Sharma <atri.j...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > Sounds great. > > > > > > I would love to be an help as a committer, if possible. This seems to > be > > > fantastic in line with my focus areas and can help existing big data > > > projects to accelerate so Kudu's growth is something I would care > about. > > > > > > > Hi Atri, > > > > Thanks for the interest! Following the example of other recent incubator > > projects, we would like to keep the initial committer list to those who > are > > already have a track record of contributions to the project. We'd love to > > have you involved as a contributor during incubation, and of course would > > be glad to add you as a committer after you've become a regular > contributor. > > Considering that the project has been closed-sourced until very recently > such > "following" would surely create pretty high entry barrier for new > committers. > Which of course would be a concern, from the community growth perspective. > > Cos >
