Re: [BuildStream] Formalizing committers

[Tristan Van Berkom <tristan vanberkom codethink co uk>]

Hi,

On Fri, 2020-05-29 at 10:27 +0200, Sander Striker wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 8:49 AM Tristan Van Berkom <tristan vanberkom codethink co uk> wrote:
> > Hi all,
[...]
> >   * New committers can be "sponsored" by an existing committer via a
> >     private communication to all other committers.
> >
> >     If there is any objection, a discussion takes place, and a majority
> >     vote is needed to onboard the new committer in the case where
> >     agreement cannot be reached.
> >
> >     For now, these communications will be in the form of private
> >     emails, and after moving the project to the ASF, these discussions
> >     will take place on a private, archived mailing list hosted by
> >     the ASF.
>
> We should be close to be able to provide mailing lists at the ASF to have these communications.  Will post 
> an update as soon as those are available.

Great, I expected we'd have to wait longer.

[...]
> > I've added Sander on CC here, as he has been a long time technical
> > guiding force in our project, and a much longer ASF community member
> > who is also a standing board member: Please correct me in my
> > paraphrasing of ASF guidelines and let us know if you think this step
> > is the correct one in it's current form.
>
> Thanks Tristan.  It may be worth mentioning that I'm a formal "mentor" for the
> BuildStream project from the Apache Petri side.  The full list of mentors can be
> found at http://petri.apache.org/buildstream

I didn't realize (or know what that was), thanks for pointing it out :)

Cheers,
    -Tristan