[dtp-dev] To clear up some confusion regarding the committer election fo

[brian.fitzpatrick@xxxxxxxxxx]

Hi all...

To clear up some confusion regarding
the committer election for Enrico Schenk (Ingres), I wanted to provide
a more specific description of his and Ingres qualifications as committers
for not only the Enablement sub-project to help with Ingres support, but
the Committer and SQL Dev Tools sub-projects.

The Eclipse New Committer process is
pretty well defined...http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/new-committer.php
 
Requirements for electing a committer (based
on the Eclipse new-committer process) come down to defining trust, being
employment neutral, and having a public election. Ingres has earned our
trust as a staunch supporter of DTP and Enrico has been involved in the
community as a contributor and a voice on the newsgroups and at conferences.
Ingres has signed the contributor agreement, so they've met the employment
neutral requirement. And we're having a public election.
 
In addition, the nomination has the following
criteria:
 
"A committer nomination should explain
the candidate's contributions to the project and thus why they should be
elected as a Committer. Cite the bugs they have fixed via patches; cite
the newsgroup postings they have answered; cite the dev list design discussions
to which they have contributed; etc. In all cases, provide urls to source
material: the bugs, posts, emails, wiki pages, etc."
 
These are a list of the bugs he's been
involved with to some degree or another.
* bug 224338 (http://bugs.eclipse.org/224338
)
* bug 224853 (http://bugs.eclipse.org/224853
)
* bug 232925 (http://bugs.eclipse.org/232925
)
* bug 237640 (http://bugs.eclipse.org/237640
)
* bug 220464 (http://bugs.eclipse.org/220464
)
* bug 224618 (http://bugs.eclipse.org/224618
)
 
Enrico has also been active on the eclipse.dtp
newsgroup, even going so far to answer questions for people on his own:
* "Trouble with override loader"
led to one of the bugs above (http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/newsLists/news.eclipse.dtp/msg01040.html)
* Discouraged Access Warnings (http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/newsLists/news.eclipse.dtp/msg01085.html)
* Filtering and Special Characters (http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/newsLists/news.eclipse.dtp/msg01086.html)
* Type hierarchy of JDBCUniqueConstraint
(http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/newsLists/news.eclipse.dtp/msg01087.html)
* Re: Formatting SQL (responding to a question
from another newsgroup poster) (http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/newsLists/news.eclipse.dtp/msg01117.html)
* Re: can't create a new driver definition
for derby.jar (responding to a question from another newsgroup poster)
(http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/newsLists/news.eclipse.dtp/msg01192.html)

In addition, Ingres has been a strong supporter
for DTP. At EclipseCon 2006, Ingres did a talk on how they used DTP to
support Ingres and how enthusiastic they were about the DTP and Eclipse
communities. At EclipseCon 2007, Ingres had a Gold Sponsorship and continued
to show strong support for DTP.

So "merit" is more than just
providing patches. "Merit" means contributing to the community.
Ingres and Enrico have done that in spades.

As I said before, I think we need to seriously
consider this an opportunity to bring in another group of people who a)
get open source, b) have been our staunch supporters, and c) are volunteering
to help with other aspects of DTP beyond Enablement.

And, as I said before, if
 any of you feel strongly that Enrico should not be considered for
one or more of the non-Enablement sub-projects of DTP,  please vote
as your conscience dictates. Each vote is a personal thing, and I certainly
don't begrudge anyone speaking their mind and sharing their opinions.
This is anything but a dictatorship!

Thanks
 --Fitz

Brian Fitzpatrick
Eclipse Data Tools Platform PMC Chair
Eclipse Data Tools Platform Connectivity Team Lead
Staff Software Engineer, Sybase, Inc.