The correct list is either here. (1) Have a look at the Incubator website and we can discuss a patch to our guidance.
Or (2) d...@community.apache.org Like Ted I gained my first committership by answering user questions in a project. IPMC membership by migrating websites, Infra for a podling. Apache Membership by mentoring. When I started with Apache I was managing a developer who was working at my direction. They got status well before me. One can certainly vote on releases without coding. Being able to evaluate and vote on releases is something every PMC needs. Regards, Dave Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 18, 2020, at 8:04 PM, Maxime Beauchemin <maximebeauche...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > 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. >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
