Committer

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A committer ( English for tuckers is) a person in an open source project , the write access to the source code in version control system has.

Usually the committers are the main developers of the project. After an intended change to the source code has been successfully checked by the project community, a committer saves it in the version control system; this storage is known as a commit . This means that even people without writing authorization, the contributors, can contribute changes.

To become a committer, you usually have to have made significant contributions to the project over a long period of time, including not only working on the source code, but also activities in the mailing lists and in the bug tracker .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sébastien Bonset, Tom Hensel: Away from the mainstream . BSD / OS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD in Linux comparison. In: iX . No. 7 . Heise, 2002, ISSN  0935-9680 : “Contributors write code and documentation, whereby their code is checked by a registered developer, a committer, before it is integrated into the source tree. Committers have write authorization for the source tree, which is usually limited to the respective area of ​​expertise. "
  2. ^ Contributors. In: The Apache Software Foundation. Retrieved September 27, 2016 (English).
  3. ↑ Committer Due Diligence Guidelines. In: Eclipse Foundation. Retrieved September 27, 2016 (English).