Jacob Helwig
2011-Sep-22 00:10 UTC
[Puppet Users] Announcing a new committer, plans for adding committers, and new mailing list.
One of the things we''re doing to try and increase the community involvement in developing, and guiding Puppet, Facter, and Puppet Dashboard is adding committers that fall under the category of "people that don''t work for Puppet Labs". Please welcome Stefan Schulte as our newest committer to Puppet! Stefan has consistently provided great feedback and work on both the implementation details, and higher-level design of many, many things both on the mailing lists, and in the Redmine ticketing system. We''re very happy that he has decided to become a committer for the open source projects. We plan on increasing the number of "people that don''t work for Puppet Labs" committers as time progresses (hopefully they''ll end up the majority), but this will be a little slow to happen at first, since we''re not currently setup to add very many new committers and get them all up to speed very quickly. As the committer pool increases, this should be less and less of an issue, and we should be able to better accommodate making sure new committers get any support they need. In addition to reviewing and commenting on code (which we encourage everyone to do, whether or not they are a committer), committers are able to merge the code that they have reviewed into the official repositories. All committers (including those employed by Puppet Labs) are still required to submit their own code as a pull request to have it reviewed and merged by another committer. In addition to adding Stefan as a committer to the open source projects, we''ve also setup a puppet-ci Google Group[1]. This group is setup to receive the test-suite notifications from out Jenkins instance[2]. I imagine that this list will mainly be of interest to committers, but anyone is welcome to subscribe and post to this list. [1] https://groups.google.com/group/puppet-ci [2] https://jenkins.puppetlabs.com -- Jacob Helwig ,---- | Join us for PuppetConf, September 22nd and 23rd in Portland, OR | http://bit.ly/puppetconfsig `----