How can I propose this as a change? What's the proper forum / mailing list?
On Tue, Apr 17, 2018, 9:49 AM Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 8:28 PM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> > wrote: > > > ... > > >> such people can earn merit by becoming involved with the community and > > > helping out where they can. > > > > > > In theory, that sounds good, but as a practical matter, how many people > > > that have ever been on the ASF board of directors neither know/knew, > nor > > > use(d) any programming languages in getting there? IOW, they got there > > > exclusively on their ability to write documentation, do community > > > relations, or utilize other non-coding skills? > > > > It has happened many times. When I was a committer on Apache Cocoon we > > voted Arje Cahn as a committer for his contributions to the project which > > had nothing to do with coding. He was voted in as an ASF member for > pretty > > much the same reason. > > > > > It has happened. I was voted as a committer for simply answering questions > (and it stuck). I know of at least one or two others. > > But we should be honest here. It isn't all that common. It should be much > more common. >
