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| <h1>Committer Members</h1> |
| <p>Before you can become a Committer Member of the Eclipse Foundation, |
| you must first become a Committer. While these things may sound |
| similar, they are actually quite different.</p> |
| <ul class='midlist'> |
| <li><strong>Committers</strong> are those people who have write |
| access to the source repositories and other content on the Eclipse |
| Foundation's website. A good description can be found in Exhibit D |
| of the <a |
| href="/org/documents/eclipse_membership_agreement.pdf">Eclipse |
| Membership Agreement</a>: "<em>In order for an individual to |
| become a Committer, another Committer for the project (or |
| component) must nominate that individual. Once an individual is |
| nominated, the existing Committers for the project (or component) |
| will vote using the process and rules established in the |
| project’s corresponding Charter. When a new project is |
| started, the corresponding PMC will nominate an initial set of |
| Committers for approval by the Executive Director (or his |
| delegates). Becoming a Committer is a privilege that is earned by |
| contributing and showing discipline and good judgment. It is a |
| responsibility that should be neither given nor taken lightly.</em>" |
| <br> <br> Read the "Becoming a Committer" section below |
| for more details. |
| </li> |
| <li><strong>Committer Members</strong> are those Committers who |
| decide to join the Eclipse Foundation as Members. Note that people |
| who work for a Member company who are Committers do not need to join |
| as individual Committer Members. They already have all of the rights |
| and privileges of a Committer Member. It is also important to |
| understand that you do not have to join the Foundation as a |
| Committer Member to be a Committer. <br> <br> One of the important |
| benefits of becoming a Committer Member is that you are eligible to |
| vote in the elections for the Committer Representatives on the |
| Eclipse Board of Directors. <br> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| |
| <h2>Becoming a Committer</h2> |
| <p>If you are interested in becoming a Committer at Eclipse, the first |
| and most important question is which project do you want to contribute |
| to?</p> |
| <ul class='midlist'> |
| <li>There are many <a href="http://projects.eclipse.org">projects</a>; you should |
| start with the project that is the most interesting and most |
| exciting to you.</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p>Second, a few operational details:</p> |
| <ul class='midlist'> |
| <li>Please note that the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/forums/">forums</a> |
| are a good place to make contact with a project. To request a |
| Eclipse Foundation password to post on the forums, report bugs and enter feature requests, please |
| go to our <a href="https://dev.eclipse.org/site_login/createaccount.php">account |
| creation form</a>. |
| </li> |
| <li>We distinguish between two similar sounding, and related, |
| organizations: the Eclipse Foundation is a member-funded |
| not-for-profit corporation that supports the Eclipse Open Source |
| Projects. The Projects are the open source community where the |
| development happens. This distinction is important because you can |
| be an active developer and contributor to the open source Projects |
| without being a "member" of the Eclipse Foundation. (Most |
| of our non-affiliated open source committers are also members of the |
| Foundation, but it is not a requirement.) There is no cost to being |
| an individual member of the Foundation.</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p>Third, about becoming a developer and committer on the Eclipse Open |
| Projects:</p> |
| <ul class='midlist'> |
| <li>Becoming a Committer at Eclipse is a multi-stage process. The |
| basic rule is that all new committers are voted in by the existing |
| committers on a project. Similar to other open source communities, |
| we operate as a meritocracy....which among other things translates |
| to mean that you have to prove your abilities before you can become |
| a committer.<br> |
| </li> |
| <li>The best way to start contributing to Eclipse is to start with |
| well-formed bug reports and feature requests for project(s) that you |
| are primarily interested in. Build a good reputation with the |
| existing committers on a project. Over time, start proposing code |
| enhancements and volunteer time to the project. Then once you have |
| demonstrated your skills to the existing team, ask a current project |
| committer to sponsor you as a committer. The election process is |
| defined in each top-level project's charter.</li> |
| </ul> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
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