ITK/Policy and Procedures for Adding Developers

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Adding developers to the team is a very important aspect of the process of building a healthy community.

The following are the procedures for adding developers to the toolkit

Identify Candidates

Candidates are identified on the basis of

  • Regular and/or notable contributions to the users/developers mailing list
  • Regular and/or notable contributions to the bug tracker
  • Regular and/or notable contributions to the Insight Journal
  • Participants on projects under the supervision of existing developers

Any current developer is welcome and encouraged to suggest candidates. Users are welcome to ask for being considered as candidates.

Characteristics that are desirable in a candidate

  • Competent C++ Skills
  • Good communication skills
  • Team building skills

Candidates should be suggested to the members of the oversight committee and any additional developers that may have opinions in favor or against the particular candidate


Evaluating Candidates

Once a candidate has been suggested, the developers in the oversight committee will vote in favor or against.

(Majority rule ?) (Should we require consensus? unanimity ?)

If the candidate is approved then developers will send her/him an invitation.

Upon acceptance the candidate will be directed to provide its username/password for CVS write access to

https://www.kitware.com/Admin/SendPassword.cgi

The candidate (now developer) will be required to sign up for

  • Bug Tracker
  • ITK CDash
  • ITK Wiki

In particular, the new developer should be able to receive emails when commits break the Dashboard; and it should be possible to assign bugs to the new developer.


Training New Developers

New developers should be introduced to the procedures of the toolkit.

In particular to the following

Background

Scientific Study of Debian Governance

http://www.techforce.com.br/index.php/news/linux_blog/scientific_study_about_debian_governance_and_organization

Quote:

Recent scholarship on open source communities suggests that any governance system introduced must be meritocratic in order to attract high quality contributions from voluntary members. By rewarding merit with greater status, responsibility, or opportunities to enhance their own development, production communities can satisfy a contributor’s need for recognition and reward in ways that their work lives may no.