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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">A few months ago, the question of an official process for obtaining commit access was raised.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The discussion lead to this proposal - <a href="https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/Proposal/ContributorAdvancementPath" class="">https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/Proposal/ContributorAdvancementPath</a>. I like that proposal, but it is still incomplete: to wit, it defines a template for how roles might be defined but does not actually define any roles. It also seems to be a bit overly ambitious, just from the observed reaction of nobody having the time to implement it :).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So I have a proposal for a scaled back process that nevertheless would give us <i class="">something</i> official-ish:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Not all committers are actively involved in the project at all times, so we should form a "committer committee" of people who are interested in evaluating candidates. If you would like to do that and you're already a committer, please contact me and I'll add you to the list. I want to do this so there's somewhere to apply <i class="">to</i> which isn't just a public mailing list or discussion, since public discussions can create social pressure to grant someone commit just to be nice, and rejections might be perceived as mean.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Candidates should submit an application to this new list, <a href="mailto:commit@twistedmatrix.com" class="">commit@twistedmatrix.com</a> which is a list of links to at least 10 tickets, at least 5 of which are patches they've submitted, and at least 5 of which are code reviews they've done which have been accepted by a committer. At least 2 of their authored patches should have gone all the way through the process to be landed.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As with the other parts of our process, if there is at least one sponsor, and no objections from anyone on the committee within 7 days, any member of the committee may add the committer.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">New committers should then be announced on the mailing list.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is not really an ideal process - particularly, it lacks a good way to give contributors something specific and useful to do - but it's something at least. If there is general assent that this is an improvement, I'll go make a wiki page and a mailing list.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">-glyph</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>