How to become a 4DIAC-Comitter

The following list provides an overview of the plans for the further development of the 4DIAC.

What is a committer?

Technically, a committer is someone who has write access to the 4DIAC Mercural repositories. A committer can submit his or her own patches or patches from others. This privilege is granted with some expectation of responsibility: committers are people who care about the 4DIAC project and want to help to improve it. A committer is not just someone who can make changes, but someone who has demonstrated his or her ability to collaborate in the 4DIAC community, contribute high-quality code, and follow through to fix issues. A committer is a contributor to the 4DIAC project’s success and a citizen helping the projects succeed.

How do I become a committer?

First of all you need to get involved and contribute via the mail list, forums, edit the documentation, work on the issue tracker, submit patches, subscribe to the commit mailing lists. Furthermore contribute 10+ non-trivial patches and get them applied to the code base. Then ask a committer to nominate you (at best the committer how committed most of your patches). If the committer agrees the following process kicks in:

1. The committer will post your nomination on the committers mailing list and calls a vote
2. The committers have one week (7days) to post their agreement or objection to the nomination.
3. In order to reach a decision, a simple majority with a quorum of 50% is necessary in the first round of voting.
4. Failure to achieve the quorum in the first round of voting, results in the extension of the voting period by one week. In the extended voting period, the quorum is suspended.
5. On the request of at least 3 committers a one week (7days) discussion phase can be called in. In this case the voting period of point 2 will be started after the one week discussion phase.

Once you get approval from the existing committers, we'll send you instructions for write access to the Mercurial repository. Furthermore you are requested to register at the committers mailing list.