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committer

committer

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A person or program that sends saved code changes to a shared project
  • noun
  • /kəˈmɪtər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : responsable
  • The team organized a workshop for new committers to help them learn the coding standards.

Examples

  • MediaWiki is a case in point: it had dozens, perhaps hundreds of committers.

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  • But that's been my experience: most SVN repositories I've seen have many committers; it works better that way.

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  • Everyone is a committer; everyone is a maintainer.

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  • This makes for this makes for powerful economic incentives to hire committers and open source projects.

  • Several ways a committer can irrevocably destroy the contents of a repository:

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  • You may have already read the recent blog post by Lucene/Solr committer and PMC member, Yonik.

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  • We have supported the Drupal community in its exponential growth from 70,000 members to over 800,000 and from 700 committers to over 18,000.

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  • This has only been possible because the CDH engineering team is comprised of more than 20 engineers who are committers and PMC members of the various Apache projects and can shape the innovation of the extended community into a single coherent system.

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  • The Hortonworks webinar series will feature core committers of the Apache projects discussing the essential components required in a Hadoop platform, current advances in Apache Hadoop, relevant use cases, and best practices on how to get started with the open source platform.

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  • A committer must carefully review the changes before merging them into the main branch.

Surface Forms

committer singular
committers plural

Morphology

committer = commit (transparent) = commit + er

Regular agentive formation from the verb 'commit' with the suffix '-er'; the computing sense (person/program that records changes) is directly derived.

Etymology

Committer comes from the verb commit, which comes from Latin com- 'together' and mittere 'to send'. In computing, a committer is the person who 'sends' or 'hands over' code changes to a project, so the origin explains the modern meaning.