- Express interest to the senior committers that your organization is interested in becoming a committer. Becoming a committer generally means that you are going to be working close to full time on Envoy for the foreseeable future. You should have domain expertise and be extremely proficient in C++. Ultimately your goal is to become a senior committer that will represent your organization.
- We will expect you to start contributing increasingly complicated PRs, under the guidance of the existing senior committers.
- We may ask you to do some PRs from our backlog.
- As you gain experience with the code base and our standards, we will ask you to do code reviews for incoming PRs.
- After a period of approximately 2-3 months of working together and making sure we see eye to eye, the existing senior committers will confer and decide whether to grant commit status or not. We make no guarantees on the length of time this will take, but 2-3 months of full time work is the approximate goal.
- First decide whether your organization really needs more people with commit access. Valid reasons are "blast radius", a large organization that is working on multiple unrelated projects, etc.
- Contact a senior committer for your organization and express interest.
- Start doing PRs and code reviews under the guidance of your senior committer.
- After a period of 1-2 months the existing senior committers will discuss granting "standard" commit access.
- "Standard" commit access can be upgraded to "senior" commit access after another 1-2 months of work and another conference of the existing senior committers.