We know that most part of the Google’s browser Chrome is written by Google programmers, but just after it became public, the search engine giant started acknowledging patches from non-Googlers. Now an outsider contributor has become an official Googler. Pawel Hajdan Jr., a computer science student from University of Warsaw has been given the right to add code to the project through a process known as committing.
Google guidelines indicates that becoming a committer is not an easy task. The guideline says:
This privilege is granted with some expectation of responsibility: committers are people who care about Chromium and want to help the project meet its goals. A committer is not just someone who can make changes to SVN (the repository where Chrome’s source code is held), but someone who has demonstrated his or her ability to collaborate with the team, get the most knowledgeable people to review code, contribute high-quality code, and follow through to fix issues.
