About Becoming a Committer

2018-06-08 Thread Sheng Zha
Hi, There have been a couple of offline inquiries from contributors about becoming a committer. From those inquiries, it seems that there’s confusion in our community about how to become a committer, so I’d like to take this opportunity to clarify. The guideline about becoming a committer can be

Re: About Becoming a Committer

2018-06-09 Thread Ivan Serdyuk
I guess you should add instructions about speaking on various event like conf., meetups - to present the whole project team. On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 11:15 PM, Sheng Zha wrote: > Hi, > > There have been a couple of offline inquiries from contributors about > becoming a committer

Re: About Becoming a Committer

2018-06-12 Thread Yasser Zamani
On 6/9/2018 12:45 AM, Sheng Zha wrote: > There have been a couple of offline inquiries from contributors about > becoming a committer. From those inquiries, it seems that there’s confusion > in our community about how to become a committer, so I’d like to take this > opportunit

Re: About Becoming a Committer

2018-06-12 Thread Pedro Larroy
been a couple of offline inquiries from contributors about > > becoming a committer. From those inquiries, it seems that there’s > confusion > > in our community about how to become a committer, so I’d like to take > this > > opportunity to clarify. > > > > The guide

Re: About Becoming a Committer

2018-06-12 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
ibute so we can attract more users. > >Pedro. > >On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 10:31 AM Yasser Zamani > >wrote: > >> >> >> On 6/9/2018 12:45 AM, Sheng Zha wrote: >> > There have been a couple of offline inquiries from contributors >about >> > be

Re: About Becoming a Committer

2018-06-12 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
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Re: About Becoming a Committer

2018-06-14 Thread Hen
On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 10:54 PM, Pedro Larroy wrote: > * I personally don't like the idea that comittership status is decided in a > closed mail list. This is not the transparency level that I would expect in > an open source project. I'm happy to receive feedback from others that > might be opp

Re: About Becoming a Committer

2018-06-15 Thread Hen
process, this is about whether the individual has shown the commitment to be extended the trust to manage commits. So; -1 to quality being more important than quantity. It's not. Hen On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 1:15 PM, Sheng Zha wrote: > Hi, > > There have been a couple of of

Re: About Becoming a Committer

2018-06-15 Thread Marco de Abreu
tended the > trust to manage commits. > > So; -1 to quality being more important than quantity. It's not. > > Hen > > > > On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 1:15 PM, Sheng Zha wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > There have been a couple of offline inquiries from contri

Re: About Becoming a Committer

2018-06-15 Thread Hen
rged; I don't care if it's stunning code or an inspired > > design. It was merged. This isn't a technical promotion process, this is > > about whether the individual has shown the commitment to be extended the > > trust to manage commits. > > > > S

Re: About Becoming a Committer

2018-06-15 Thread Marco de Abreu
> > never merged (or the merger had to write a ton of > fixes/tests/additions) > > > then yes, that's a pretty bad sign. > > > > > > If the code was merged; I don't care if it's stunning code or an > inspired > > > design. It was mer

Re: About Becoming a Committer

2018-06-15 Thread Tianqi Chen
to be extended the > trust to manage commits. > > So; -1 to quality being more important than quantity. It's not. > > Hen > > > > On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 1:15 PM, Sheng Zha wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > There have been a couple of offline

Re: About Becoming a Committer

2018-06-16 Thread Pedro Larroy
ndividual has shown the commitment to be extended the > > trust to manage commits. > > > > So; -1 to quality being more important than quantity. It's not. > > > > Hen > > > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 1:15 PM, Sheng Zha wrote: > > &g

Re: About Becoming a Committer

2018-06-16 Thread Sebastian
I would propose the two following action points: * Resetting the list of committers to people that have contributed in the previous terms in the latest 6 months * Suspend veto rights temporarily and use simple majority for decisions that need a vote so we realign the project with the communit

Re: About Becoming a Committer

2018-06-16 Thread Pedro Larroy
Hi Sebastian. Thank you for your comment. That's why I said "I would propose", because I don't know if it's possible as my experience with Apache is limited to the MXNet project. How do you interpret this part?: "Since the appointed Project Management Committees have the power to create their own

Re: About Becoming a Committer

2018-06-16 Thread Chris Olivier
Whoa, who said that? I can’t find it on this thread. On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 8:37 AM Sebastian wrote: > > I would propose the two following action points: > > > > * Resetting the list of committers to people that have contributed in > the > > previous terms in the latest 6 months > > * Suspe

Re: About Becoming a Committer

2018-06-16 Thread Sebastian
On 16.06.2018 10:57, Pedro Larroy wrote: Hi Sebastian. Thank you for your comment. That's why I said "I would propose", because I don't know if it's possible as my experience with Apache is limited to the MXNet project. How do you interpret this part?: "Since the appointed Project Management Co

Re: About Becoming a Committer

2018-06-16 Thread Chris Olivier
Oh Pedro... lol funny stuff. On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 10:20 AM Sebastian wrote: > On 16.06.2018 10:57, Pedro Larroy wrote: > > Hi Sebastian. > > > > Thank you for your comment. That's why I said "I would propose", because > I > > don't know if it's possible as my experience with Apache is limited

Re: About Becoming a Committer

2018-06-16 Thread Tianqi Chen
* Resetting the list of committers to people that have contributed in the previous terms in the latest 6 months I bought this before and got shot down by the mentors, as according to Apache it is impossible to bar merit based on time of contributions. On the other hand, I like some of the point