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How do we evaluate? By the interactions they have through mail. By how they respond to criticism. By how they participate in decision-making process.
Ability to be a mentor
How do we evaluate? By the interactions they have through mail. By how clear they are and how willing they are to point at appropriate background materials (or even create them).
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How do we evaluate? By time, by sticking through tough issues, by helping on not-so-fun tasks as well.
Personal skill/ability
How do we evaluate? A solid general understanding of the project. Quality of discussion in mail. Patches (where applicable) easy to apply with only a cursory review.
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- Call a vote: templates/committerVote.txt
- Close a vote: templates/closeCommitterVote.txt
- Invite the new committer: templates/committerInvite.txt, if no CLA is on file: templates/committerInviteCLA.txt
If they accept, then do:
- Accept the committer: templates/committerAccept.txt
- Add crowd group: fcrepo-committer
- Add to owners of GitHub fcrepo organization.
- Announce the new committer (template/committerAnnounce.txt)
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