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About the dCA Tech Committee

Mission

The Technical Committee is headed by the dCA Project Management & Technology Officer who must be represented with a board seat.

The Technical Committee, represented by the Head Tech Committee consults the Executive Board on technical matters.

It prepares and updates the technical roadmap for approval by the Executive Board and/or the General Assembly, manages incoming feature requests and proposals and takes decisions on awarding credits for work submitted by members.

Team

The the Technical Committee (TC) will include key developers from companies and others in the django CMS development community - developers who work with django CMS, as well as developers of django CMS - in order to help ensure that all perspectives are represented in important decisions about the software and the project.

The TC may also include representatives of the django CMS community who are not developers but who have a valuable expertise in key fields (user experience, design, content management, etc).

The current members of the TC are:

  • Mario Colombo (Project Management & Technology Officer)
  • Angelo Dini
  • Victor Yunenko
  • Andrew Aikman

Want to joint the TC? Please see below.

Tasks

Processes

Become a core contributor

  • Anyone can become a core contributor. Core contributors fork a django CMS repo into their own organisation and create a PR back into the official repository while following the django CMS instructions for creating PRs.
  • A list of existing core contributors can be found in the repo's CONTRIBUTORS.rst

Become am member of the Tech Committee

Anyone can join the Tech Committee (TC) meetings as a guest.

Membership on the TC will grant:

  • the right to set the TC agenda (via PR) before TC meetings
  • write access to the django CMS Github repo which is useful for the following:
    • review and accept PRs
    • manage issues, i.e. add, remove labels / close issues
    • other admin tasks

Admission process

  • join us as a guest a couple of times
  • a guest requests a seat in the technical committee during a TC meeting
  • dCA TC will then cast a vote (in absence of the candidate)
  • candidate will be informed about the outcome of the voting
  • candidate will be sent a dCA membership application if not a dCA member yet