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From: Ross Gardler <Ross.Gardler@microsoft.com>
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Subject: Re: recognizing valuable non-code contributions
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Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 14:28:05 +0000
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My preferred approach is option 1. If you document the role of "committee" =
as "someone who is committed to the project" then this works well.

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From: A. Soroka <ajs6f@virginia.edu>
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2016 6:50:50 AM
To: dev@community.apache.org
Subject: recognizing valuable non-code contributions

Hello, community-builders!

I (ajs6f) am writing from Apache Jena. We've been tossing around a question=
 that would certainly benefit from the wisdom and experience on this list. =
We have inside the community around Jena persons who have done really good =
work for the project in such ways as answering questions, providing helpful=
 examples, suggesting useful improvements and documentation, and so forth, =
but who have not made code contributions. We'd very much like to recognize =
and reward these people for their excellent efforts, but the particular rol=
e of "committer" doesn't seem obviously appropriate to all of us. We were w=
ondering how other projects have dealt with similar circumstances. We've co=
me up with a couple of possibilities:

1) Just elect these folks as committers with the understanding that anyone =
responsible enough to be at the heart of the community will presumably not =
do anything rash with committer privileges, and anyway, version control is =
there for a reason.

2) Create some kind of new non-committer role within the project  (e.g. "Co=
mmunity Expert") for these folks that might provide some privileges (e.g. s=
pecial rights/permissions in Jira or to the documentation base) without ful=
l committer rights to the code base.

3) Elect these people to membership in the PMC _without_ electing them comm=
itters. We're not totally sure whether this is actually possible within the=
 Apache framework, so one question of fact we have is whether this is in fa=
ct a possibility.

Any thoughts, advice, experience very welcome!

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A. Soroka ; Apache Jena


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