Members

Project Management Committee

Liang Zhang (Chair)	Juan Pan	Craig L Russell	Sheng Wu	Willem Ning Jiang	Haoran Meng	Kimm King
Yonglun Zhang	Jun Zhao	Yi Yang	QingYang Chen	vongosling	Hongtao Gao	Hongjun Du
Hao Cao	Xiaoguang Ma	Weijie Wu	Zhengqiang Duan	Hongsheng Zhong	Guangyuan Wang	Longtao Jiang
Chuxim Chen	Jinchao Zhao

Committers

Haisheng Sun	Qi Wang	Ya Li	Yanan Zhao	Zhiyi Yan	YangWen Ou	Zonglei Dong
Xiaofeng Jiang	Ling Yue	Xiao Yu	Jingshang Lu	Jiwei Guo	Lu Qiu	Thanoshan MV
Chengxiang Lan	Xiao Yang	Guocheng Tang	Guoping Li	Liangda Wang	cheese8	Yang Hou
Qunxing Lei	Chen Ma	Junjie Zhang	Swastika Gupta	Yacine Si Tayeb	Ting Huang	Nianjun Sun
Xinze Guo	Everly Precia Suresh	Liyao Miao	Gaoxiang Xiong	Zichao Wang	Qiheng He	Cheng Zhang
Jiahao Chen	Zihao Niu	Maolin Jiang

Contributors

You can find all of the ShardingSphere contributors directly in GitHub’s contribution list.

• shardingsphere
• shardingsphere-benchmark

Becoming a Committer

The ShardingSphere community follows the Apache Community’s process on accepting a new committer. Contributors that actively participate in ShardingSphere’s community will be invited by the project’s (P)PMC and Committers to join them by becoming a committer.

You can read the Contributor Guide for more information on how you can contribute to the community, as well as the Committer Guide for more details on how to become a committer.

How Can I Become a Contributor

A contributor simply means that you take an interest in the project and contribute in some way, ranging from asking questions to providing new features as code patches. Contributions can be made in many ways, such as:

1. Help others in the issues

• Help solve problems with the issues
• Remind the authors to provide a demo if they are reporting a bug
• Try to reproduce the problem as described in the issues

2. Make pull requests to fix bugs or implement new features
3. Help with editing or translating the documents
4. Discuss in the mailing list
5. Join the ShardingSphere Slack community
6. Spread the word! Tweet or engage with @ShardingSphere on Twitter
7. Bit of a writer? Consider submitting a piece for publication on the ShardingSphere Medium page and official blog and we will feature you on all our media channels as well

The first step is to get involved. Dive into the Apache ShardingSphere concept & code, and say hi to the community; offer help, improve docs, complete a newbie ticket or answer a user. You may just be surprised how welcoming and open folks are here. The more visible and engaged you are in the project, the more fun you will have and the more access you will have to advice and feedback. Contributing is fun and beneficial.

Anyone can become a committer

Anyone who contributes to a project in any way is a contributor. If you become a valuable contributor to the project, the Project Management Committee (PMC) may invite you to become a committer.

It brings with it the privilege of write access to the project repository and resources, not just read source code files. A committer has the privilege to write and commit code and create pull requests to the default branch of the repository and in most cases, reviewers are also committers as you need to understand the code to review a PR.
In short, the committer is authorized to merge user contributions into the project.

Notably, anyone who is supportive of the community and works in any of the CoPDoC (Community, Project, Documentation, and Code) areas is a likely candidate for committership. Being a committer does not only mean you commit code; it means you are committed to the project and are productively contributing to its success.

Apart from many visible contributions of value in Apache projects (documentation, testing, coding user support, design, etc.), you will need to be a committer to carry out these activities:

• Assisting with project management and marketing, such as writing informational blogs, assessing and approving new committers, board reports, and Apache Project Branding, etc.
• Speaking about Apache projects at events
• Providing mentorship

Why should I become a Committer?

Committer activity is a good and useful endeavor:

• Being assigned to a Committer role is extremely motivating. A good open source community like Apache ShardingSphere appreciates your values and contributions, and you clearly see the results of your work in action.
• Grow both professionally and personally very fast.
• Have an opportunity to connect with top professionals and also pull some cool ideas.
• Being a Committer is good for CV building and even a greater plus for junior programmers.

For more information, please read Guide for new project committers published by the Apache Software Foundation.