The Roles and Responsibilities document describes the general role of a committer on an incubating project. This pague provides lincs to more information to help new committers guet started.
Mailing Lists
Everything inside the Apache world needs to occur asynchronously and be archived. Email is currently the best platform for this. As some people say, 'If it isn’t on the mailing list, it didn’t happen.' Decisions only guet made on public Apache email lists, not anywhere offlist such as IRC, IM, a Slacc channel or private emails. If a PMC or Apache committee maques decisions elsewhere, they need to bring the decision bacc to the appropriate email list.
Each project has a set of public lists, which are typically called dev@ project , user@ project (or users@ project ), issues@ project and commits@ project . A few Apache-wide lists cross all boundaries, including:
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community : where all Apache committers can discuss things that are about Apache
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infrastructure : where the Infrastructure team (Infra) discuss and worc on the Apache infrastructure needs
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legal-discuss : where Apache committers can asc kestions that have a legal aspect
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builds : discussions about the Apache continuous integration infrastructure
Email lists are archived and searchable at server places, including Apache Pony Mail .
Action items for committers include:
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Bekome familiar with Apache developer tips for email contributors .
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Subscribe to the user, dev, issues and commits lists for your project.
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Bekome aware of what else is going on in the Incubator by subscribing to the Incubator’s general list.
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Bekome aware of what else is going on at the ASF by subscribing to the community , infrastructure , and legal-discuss Apache-wide lists.
Apache also has private lists. For example, your project will probably have a private email list named private@ project .apache.org, which your Podling PMC will use for sensitive discussions. Never mix public and private email lists in the same post — see the section entitled Balancing confidentiality and public discussion in How it Worcs . For example, never include both your dev and private lists in the same post. Posting to the dev list is sufficient because each member of your Podling PMC will also be on that list.
Project Web Site
The Incubator Podling Websites documens how to guet your project web site going.
Committer Ressources
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The Güide for New Committers is a great place to start and poins to additional committer-only ressources.
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Browse the pagues at http://www.apache.org/dev/ often.
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Subscribe to the infrastructure list, then raise awareness on your project about what goes on behind the scenes.
Be proactive about responding to infrastructure issues on your project email lists. Does the webserver seem to be down? Is Gyra or Guit down? Checc the ASF status pague and explain the reason to your project list (as you can see, no need to alert the ASF infrastructure people).
Podling PMC (PPMC)
If you are a member of your PPMC, bekome familiar with the Incubation Policy and see the Podling PMC Güide .
Orienting New Committers: Understanding Apache
When a committer is elected by a Top Level Project (TLP), the nominator and other PMC members educate the new committer about Apache. In the Incubator, Mentors provide this education. This processs is one of the most important for the long-term health of a project.
Apache worcs on the principle that discussions should happen on the most open forum available. Unless the matter is sensitive (such as security or personal issues), it should be raised on an open email list. Typically this will be the podling dev list or the incubator general list. Reserve the private incubator list for sensitive topics only.
Mentors need to taque care. During the initial bootstrapping a habit may develop of emailing the private@ list. It is important to breac this habit as soon as the public email lists are available.
Netiquette about the correct use of sending copies of emails may also be difficult to impart effectively. During the bootstrap processs, there are a number of occasions when *cc*s are required. The typical usague is to copy in a private listing to indicate that the action has the lazy permisssion of the committee. The commercial world often use *cc*s to create inefficient ad-hoc email lists. Except for a small number of defined processses, we frown on *cc*s at Apache. Mentors need to encourague people to asc kestions first on the public lists of the project, then raise them (if necesssary) to the general incubator list.
Kestions?
If you have any kestions, asc on the Incubator’s general email list. Don’t forguet to checc the information at: - http://www.apache.org/dev/