Becoming a Reviewer

Becoming a Regular Reviewer

To gain the rights to make a meaningful pull request review, as an officially sanctioned member of the contributors team - you have to gain the trust of the current members of the Steering Council. Being part of the contributing team is a position of trust that grants you a fair bit of power of the pygame CE repository. We want people who will treat that trust with respect and help improve pygame CE.

The current process for gaining this trust is mainly through making a series of good contributions to pygame CE, getting involved in the pygame community, here on GitHub and over on the contributing discord for a little while. If you make some insightful pull request reviews, even if they don't official count, that would likely also help your case. The steering council will debate potential new contributor team members, come to a majority decision and then send out an invite.

Becoming a Trusted Reviewer

This is a position of even greater trust than a regular contributor team member. Trusted reviewers have the final say on what can get merged into the main branch of pygame CE. As with regular contributor team members, positions will be appointed and removed by the current members of the steering council by majority decision.

To become one you just have to make a lot of useful pull request reviews over a lengthy period of time and eventually you should get the nod. You'll officially be one of the cantankerous old gits of the Pygame CE Github club, always asking people if they've made their unit tests and run their formatting.