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[dsdp-tm-dev] Want to become a committer?
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Hi
Rado,
I'm wondering
whether you'd be interested in becoming a committer
on the TM Project? -
Your contributions had outstanding quality so
far, and it would
save me from applying your patches :-)
Being a committer
gives you privileges, especially write-access to
the CVS
Repository;
But it also gives
you responsibilities, by order of importance:
- Most importantly,
since you can write to CVS, you need to keep the Codebase clean. You need to
understand Copyright Rules and avoid committing any stuff that you copied
& pasted from somewhere. Also, you must not commit profanity in the source
files.
- Second, as a
committer you are entitled to voting (e.g. voting in new committers; voting on
a go/no-go for releases. Vote period is one week as per our project charter;
committers who don't read the mailing list and don't wait within a few days
hold off every vote, this is not appreciated. Therefore, as a committer, we
expect that you regularly read the project mailing list and respond to voting
requests.
- Third, as a
committer you represent the project so it's expected that you answer questions
from newcomers on the newsgroup or mailing list.
- Fouth, being a
committer is understood as a long-term priviledge / obligation. It means that
you are willing to maintain and evlove some part of the code (typicaly yours
:-) over time, and eventually start reviewing / accepting contributions from
others via Bugzilla - which, again, requires that you understand the Eclipse
Copyright Due Diligence process. Commit Rights can be revoked after an
extended period of inactivity, though we'd prefer to not do that and keep you
being committer even in case you switch companies: it's a personal priviledge
for you and not any employer.
Sounds interesting
to you? If yes, please let me know and I
can propose you to
the other commiters, who'd then vote about
the
proposal.
Cheers,
--
Martin Oberhuber, Senior Member of Technical
Staff, Wind River
Target Management Project
Lead, DSDP PMC Member
