Re: Metrics/guidelines for adding committers?

Hi,

Here is a reply I ever sent to a fellow ASF member:

> For the committer bar, I always think of whether the candidate is easy to
work with - make decisions with cautious while bravely, know when to ask
for help.
>
> For too much new committers, it hurts when their contributions always
need to revision especially trivial mistakes. If we elect a new committer
while his/her contribution need more attention to avoid merged wrongly
quickly, we lose the reason to invite the very person.
>
> Apache doesn't set up fine-grained permissions so it's extremely
important not to approve something you're unsure with.

You can have some metrics, for sure. But if you set the metrics too
concrete, said N PRs + M Issues + X continuous active months, then you will
get what the metrics look like. That is, even if a patch should be
submitted in one PR, contributors may consider split in to many, etc.

In the ASF, here is a community of peers [1]. So we (or at least me) mainly
run the community based on trust and earned authority, not performance
indicators.

[1] https://www.apache.org/theapacheway/

Best,
tison.


Salz, Rich via general <[email protected]> 于2026年8月5日周三 19:44写道：

> Are there any common metrics or guidelines with ASF that give guidance on
> when someone should be added as a committer? Looking for something to point
> other non-ASF projects to.
>
> Thanks!
>