Make This Person We Hired a Committer

Here’s a scenario: you work for an organization that contributes to open source and you’ve hired a developer to work on your favourite open source project. You need to make them a committer. How do you do that? I get this sort of request every so often: “we’ve hired so-and-so and we need you to make them a committer, m’kay?”. The short answer is: no. The Eclipse Foundation Development Process, and all Eclipse open source projects by extension, work on three principles that we refer to as the Open Source Rules of Engagement which states that Eclipse open source projects must operate in an open, transparent, and meritocratic manner.