SkyWalking Project Management Committee(PMC) takes the responsibilities to assess the contributions of candidates.
In the SkyWalking, like many Apache projects, we treat contributions including, but not limited to, code contributions. Such as writing blog, guiding new users, give public speak, prompting project in various ways, are all treated as significant contributions.
In the SkyWalking, new committer nomination could only be started by existing PMC members officially. The new contributor could contact any existing PMC member if he/she feels he/she is qualified. Talk with the PMC member, if some members agree, they could start the process.
The following steps are recommended, and could only be started by existing PMC member.
[DISCUSS] Promote xxx as new committer
mail to private@skywalking.a.o
. List the important contributions of the candidates, in order to help the PMC members supporting your proposal.[VOTE] Promote xxx as new committer
mail to private@skywalking.a.o
, when the PMC seems to agree the proposal.Consensus Approval
if there 3 +1 votes and +1 votes > -1 votes[RESULT][VOTE] Promote xxx as new committer
mail to private@skywalking.a.o
, and list the vote detail including the voters.The PMC member, who start the promotion, takes the responsibilities to send the invitation to new committer and guide him/her to set up the ASF env.
You should send the mail like the following template to new committer
To: JoeBloggs@foo.net Cc: private@skywalking.apache.org Subject: Invitation to become SkyWalking committer: Joe Bloggs Hello [invitee name], The SkyWalking Project Management Committee] (PMC) hereby offers you committer privileges to the project . These privileges are offered on the understanding that you'll use them reasonably and with common sense. We like to work on trust rather than unnecessary constraints. Being a committer enables you to more easily make changes without needing to go through the patch submission process. Being a committer does not require you to participate any more than you already do. It does tend to make one even more committed. You will probably find that you spend more time here. Of course, you can decline and instead remain as a contributor, participating as you do now. A. This personal invitation is a chance for you to accept or decline in private. Either way, please let us know in reply to the [private@skywalking.apache.org] address only. B. If you accept, the next step is to register an iCLA: 1. Details of the iCLA and the forms are found through this link: http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas 2. Instructions for its completion and return to the Secretary of the ASF are found at http://www.apache.org/licenses/#submitting 3. When you transmit the completed iCLA, request to notify the Apache SkyWalking and choose a unique Apache id. Look to see if your preferred id is already taken at http://people.apache.org/committer-index.html This will allow the Secretary to notify the PMC when your iCLA has been recorded. When recording of your iCLA is noticed, you will receive a follow-up message with the next steps for establishing you as a committer.
And the new committer should reply the mail to private@skywalking.apache.org
(Choose reply all
), and express the will to accept the invitation explicitly. Then this invitation will be treated as accepted by project PMC. Of course, the new committer could just say NO, and reject the invitation.
If they accepted, then they need to do the following things.
dev@skywalking.apache.org
. Usually they already have.icla.pdf
and icla.pdf.asc
to secretary@apache.org
and private@skywalking.apache.org
.Then the PMC will wait the Apache secretary confirmed the ICLA filed. The new committer and PMC will receive the mail like following
Dear XXX, This message acknowledges receipt of your ICLA, which has been filed in the Apache Software Foundation records. Your account has been requested for you and you should receive email with next steps within the next few days (can take up to a week). Please refer to https://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#developers for more information about roles at Apache.
If in some case, the account has not be requested(rarely to see), the PMC member should contact the project V.P.. The V.P. could request through the Apache Account Submission Helper Form.
After several days, the new committer will receive the account created mail, as this title, Welcome to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF)!
. At this point, congratulate! You have the official Apache ID.
The PMC member should add the new committer to official committer list through roster.
Forwarding email address
) and GitHub account(Your GitHub Username
).xxx@apache.org
to send mail, you need to use GMail, and following this guide.If you want others could see you are in the Apache GitHub org, you need to go to Apache GitHub org people page, search for yourself, and choose Organization visibility
to Public
.
SkyWalking project doesn't require the continue contributions after you become a committer, but we hope and truly want you could.
Being a committer, you could
The PMC hope the new committer to take part in the release and release vote, even still be consider +1 no binding
. But be familiar with the release is one of the key to be promoted as a PMC member.
Project Management Committee(PMC) member has no special rights in code contributions. They just cover and make sure the project following the Apache requirement, including
V.P. and chair of the PMC is the secretary, take responsibility of initializing the board report.
In the normal case, the new PMC member should be nominated from committer team. But becoming a PMC member directly is not forbidden, if the PMC could agree and be confidence that the candidate is ready, such as he/she has been a PMC member of another project, Apache member or Apache officer.
The process of new PMC vote should also follow the same [DISCUSS]
, [VOTE]
and [RESULT][VOTE]
in private mail list as new committer vote. One more step before sending the invitation, the PMC need to send NOTICE mail to Apache board.
To: board@apache.org Cc: private@skywalking.apache.org Subject: [NOTICE] Jane Doe for SkyWalking PMC SkyWalking proposes to invite Jane Doe (janedoe) to join the PMC. (include if a vote was held) The vote result is available here: https://lists.apache.org/...
After 72 hours, if the board doesn‘t object(usually it wouldn’t be), send the invitation.
After the committer accepted the invitation, The PMC member should add the new committer to official PMC list through roster.