How to Become a Presto Committer?

Technically a committer is someone who has write access to the Presto repository. The path to committership starts with becoming a contributor to the project. Over time contributors prove that they have high commitment to the project and they get nominated by an existing committer to become a committer.

When a committer candidate is nominated by an existing committer, majority approval is required from the TSC (charter). The nomination should include a justification of why that person should become a committer (e.g., code/test/doc contributions, other positive impact to the project & community, etc.)

Committer candidates:

demonstrate good collaboration skills
submit high quality pull requests that conform to Presto coding styles and best practices.
demonstrate good understanding of Presto’s criteria for accepting pull requests
help with reviewing pull requests from the community
contribute to design/technical discussions on Github and Slack
help with user issues on Github, user mailing list, and Slack
have good judgement around when some code should be merged, or when to ask someone else to make that judgement
care deeply about code quality
care deeply about good test coverage & proper user documentation
care deeply about performance and reliability

Committership can be revoked under rare circumstances, such as when a committer stops becoming a good citizen of the project or when a committer becomes inactive for an extended period of time.