Introducing the Trusted Committer Role
The Trusted Committer (TC) role is one of the key roles in an InnerSource community. Think of Trusted Committers as the people in a community that you trust with important technical decisions and with mentoring contributors to ultimately get contributions over the finish line.
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Ensuring Product Quality
Let’s start with the responsibility most often associated with the Trusted Committer role: ensuring product quality.
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Keeping the Community Healthy
The introduction pointed out that Trusted Committers have both tech-oriented and community-oriented responsibilities. It is not sufficient to focus on code and code health only.
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Upleveling Community Members
There is a continuum of participation in an InnerSource community. There are people who are not aware of the community.
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Lowering the Barriers to Entry
Soliciting contributions in an InnerSource community is more challenging than it is in an Open Source community for a number of reasons:
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Advocating for the Community’s Needs
InnerSource communities exist in a corporate context and are thus more constrained than Open Source communities.
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Becoming a Trusted Committer
The Trusted Committer role is a demanding but fulfilling role. If this learning path interests you, you might be wondering how to actually become a Trusted Committer and if you are the right person for the job.
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Conclusion
In the previous chapters we have learned about the responsibilities of Trusted Committers. Some of these responsibilities include ensuring product quality, keeping their community healthy, reducing the barriers to making contributions, upleveling the community and advocating for its needs within the organization.
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