| Roles | Responsibilities | PMC/Committer
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| R1 | User Engagement : You are the face of the project in many ways, also its lifeline. First responders to user issues, doing the best to unblock them asap. | - Answer user questions on Slack
- Answer simple GH issues
- Answer simple questions on users@
- Keep FAQ/Troubleshooting guides upto date
- Handoff anything that might need a closer look/confirmation to R2
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| R2 | Community Management : You are the pillar of strength for the project, taking on the context switching, connecting the dots for everyone | - Triage handed-off R1 issues and help users with tuning, configs, alternate workarounds
- Tag GH issues with the right label for tracking
- Once an issue is triaged to a real bug/feature request, file a JIRA against the right release
- If fixes are simple/small, deliver fixes on master to help users make progress
- Fix any small docs issues, take up administrative tasks.
- Answer simple questions on dev@ from contributors
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| R3 | User Success : You go the extra mile to help users understand the project and remove adoption hurdles. | - Spend more hands-on interactive time with user' issue over any conferencing tool/slack to help them get to production sooner.
- Many users may be new to data processing/Spark/Hadoop as well. You also provide them with architectural help along the way
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| R4 | Evangelization : You get the word out. You are the growth team, thinking constantly about how to bring new people/ideas to the project. | - You tweet, post, write, share things in and around Apache Hudi
- You deliver conference talks, meetups and get the word out
- You also author some strong technical blogs on hudi.apache.org/blog
- You are constantly thinking about aspects that are less explained, and how to make them easier for the users
| Shaofeng Li |
| R5 | Code/Design Reviews : You are moving the needle by providing great, kind and constructive code reviews. Code can be written, but has to be landed for it to matter. | - You prowl the PRs, with the intent of making quick forward progress along with high quality
- You contribute small fixes yourself and are constantly thinking of making the process more efficiently
- You chime in on RFC reviews with insightful comments, helping the design make steady progress
- You contribute towards making our code style, tests, test infrastructure more complete, robust and standardized
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| R6 | Engineering : You are the "engine" (pun intended). Ultimately, Apache Hudi will be widely adopted for the technical merits and its beautiful set of features. You author them. | - You are constantly working on the committed work for the next release, with an eye for what's best for the project
- You are authoring RFCs, with due process that describe new features/improvements to Hudi
- You are in general, a strong engineer, who wants to ship Hudi code.
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