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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:53:30 +1100
From: David Crossley <crossley@apache.org>
To: general@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Initial draft of committer policy
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An interesting slip-up. The ASF document that you
refer to is out-of-date. There was a recent discussion
on this general@incubator list about the practice of
doing personal stuff on the private pmc mailing list.
We need to fix the docs.

-David

Ted Leung wrote:
> Nuts.  This obviously went to the wrong list.
> 
> Sorry for the spam.
> 
> Ted
> 
> Ted Leung wrote:
> 
> >Hi all,
> >
> >We are getting to the point of needing to grant commit privileges  
> >for some of the projects at OSAF.  This is a first cut  at  
> >describing how the process should work for code committers.   In  
> >the future we will probably extend this notion to design  
> >contributors as well, but we are still trying to figure out what  
> >that means.   What you see here is similar to the process used by  
> >Apache and many other large open source projects.
> >
> >As usual questions, comments, critiques and other feedback are very  
> >welcome.
> >
> >Ted
> >
> >---------
> >Participants in OSAF projects can take on a number of roles
> >
> >Users are people that use our software.  We hope that they will  
> >contribute to the project they use by reporting bugs and making  
> >erquests for features.  We also hope that they will become part of  
> >the project community, by helping other users and telling other  
> >people about our software
> >
> >Contributors are people who contribute to one ofthe projects via  
> >design, code,  documentation, or testing.   Contributors are active  
> >participants in the project mailing lists and provide design ideas,  
> >code changes, or documentation changes.
> >
> >Code contributors may also become committers - They have write  
> >access to the source code repository, and have signed a Contributor  
> >License Agreement (CLA).
> >
> >* Becoming a committer
> >
> >If a code contributor has contributed a significant number of high- 
> >quality patches, is interested in continuing to contribute to the  
> >project, and has demonstrated the ability to work well with other  
> >contributors, then an existing committer may propose granting that  
> >contributor commit access.
> >
> >Discussion of a potential new committer will initially take place  
> >in private (at the moment we have no private lists for this  
> >purpose).  After this initial vetting discussion, the actual vote  
> >can occur on the project's public developer list.  This practice of  
> >a private discussion followed by a public, pro-forma vote is a <a  
> >href="http://incubator.apache.org/learn/newcommitters.html">best  
> >practice</a> adopted from the Apache Software Foundation.  Only  
> >votes cast by existing committers are binding.
> >
> >After the new committer has been voted in, they must sign a  
> >Contributor License Agreement (CLA).  Once this document is on  
> >file, the IT Staff at OSAF will create the necessary accounts, etc.

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