Comittership bar quidance & mailing lists, openness & how large code drops/off-list development are killing the community

[Dmitriy Pavlov <dp...@gmail.com>]

Hi Igniters,

I would like to share with Apache Ignite community a slightly updated
comittership bar guide. It is a not strict rule, but a recommendation:

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/IGNITE/Committership+Bar+Guidance

There were no significant changes. PMC agreed to avoid counting messages
and introducing any metric for participation in discussions, but a
candidate still needs to have a good presence and visibility on the dev
list.


I also would like to share several more Apache links related to
committership :

https://community.apache.org/newcommitter.html
<http://community.apache.org/newcommitter.html>

https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/DefaultProjectGuidelines

https://community.apache.org/contributors/#contributing-a-project-copdoc

https://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#meritocracy

Also, there is the discussion on community developers mailing list to find
out opinions of ASF fellows about the case when a developer is not visible
on the mailing list:

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/906785eeb03c6a35a65843689f3e23ec75410b0cf36c6779f6b36acd@%3Cdev.community.apache.org%3E

And one more discussion about the impact of large code drops from
commercial companies and their impact on a community, about the importance
of openness:

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8d915443bc31a228d747744e2f65d54176608c95dc93efac184f66bc@%3Cdev.community.apache.org%3E

Sincerely,

Dmitriy Pavlov