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The committers of OFBiz are a core group of developers who have the ability to commit changes into the OFBiz source code repository. As the project has grown over the years, there have been more committers of projects, so we thought it would be a good idea to define what the roles and responsibilities of the committers are. These points below are based on discussions we recently had on the developers' list:

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OFBiz is a community driven project, and the point of a community-driven project is to build software that would work in a large variety of situations with a large group of other people. Because of this it is really important than that the project is written in a way which would benefit many potential users, and that the community works together towards that goal.

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Rule #1 for a committer is the same as for a doctor: first do no harm. Nothing should be committed that breaks existing functionality without replacing it either before or in the same commit. Whatever you are working with someone developed it and chances are someone is using it, and possibly MANY people. This is especially true if the change is just to make something easier for a particular client or customization effort. This means, in particular, that if some progress is made on a certain effort but you can't finish it in the time you have available, then don't commit it if it breaks anything that was there, just keep it local or attach it to a Jira issue or something if you want others to be able to get involved (or just get it to the point where the stuff it broke works again, then commit it).

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Committers are added by invitation only and that starts with a nomination from a OFBiz PMC (Project Management Committee) member. In order to be accepted as a committer the normal ASF voting pattern is followed. This basically means that 3 PMC members must vote in favor, and should there should be any major objections they need to be addressed first.

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