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Being a committer in FINERACT is a responsibility that we wish to encourage as many good developers contributors as possible to share with us.  It is also an honor which is earned by good behavior.

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If a contributor does not get sufficient votes, or is vetoed there is no need to inform him or her that a vote occurred.  Depending on the reason for a veto, the question may be raised again at a later date.

Developer committer qualities

What qualities should a committer possess?  To be made a committer, a contributor should have developed experience with FINERACT by

• creating bug fixes AND programming features,
• producing multiple high quality code changes as determined by an existing committer using the Code Review Guide,
• owning and fixing their own mistakes,
• mentoring other contributors, and
• be a good judge of whether another contributor would make a good committer.

Community Liaison Committer qualities

TODO: list concrete properties a Community Liaison should have.

Developer committer rights and responsibilities

• Everything listed in http://www.apache.org/dev/new-committers-guide.html
• Reviewing code before it is committed using the Code Review Guide.
• Reviewing code for other committers after it is committed.
• Taking part in conversations on the private mailing list and keeping those conversations private.
• Taking part in conversations on the dev mailing list when he or she has something to contribute.
• Occasionally cleaning up the committer list.

Community Liaison Committer rights and responsibilities

TODO: list more concrete rights and responsibilities of a community liaison committer.

• Taking part in conversations on the private mailing list and keeping those conversations private.
• Taking part in conversations on the dev mailing list when he or she has something to contribute.

How to clean up the committer list

• Look for committers who have not performed any visible public action listed above for at least 6 months.
• Write to each such committer to ask them if they still wish to be a committer.
• Anyone who responds that they no longer wish to be a committer can be removed from the committer list, thus loosing all rights and responsibilities associated with being a committer.
• Anyone who does not respond in four weeks can be removed from the committer list, thus loosing all rights and responsibilities associated with being a committer.
• Any committer can at any time request removal from the committer list.