I’ve become a containerd committer yesterday. Derek opened a pull request in March 3rd and it was merged finally.
containerd as a project has two types of maintainers: “reviewers” and “committers”. Reviewers can review and approve pull requests. Committers can merge pull requests in addition to what reviewers can do. Originally only committers were considered as “maintainers”, but it was changed in 2021. Now maintainers = committers + reviewers.
I started contributing containerd back in March 2020. Fixing a cgroup bug was my first pull request, which was needed for Fargate Platfrom Version 1.4. Then I became a reviewer in 2021. Now I’m a committer.
It has been a great journey so far. I hope that continues! Well, now I have to do more than just hoping though :)