Re: [eclipse-pmc] New Component Leads in the Eclipse Project

[Wayne Beaton <emo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

We don't formally track component leads. In fact, we don't really have 
any notion of "component" in the EDP any more. Components tend to be 
more of a concept within a project and tend to be managed via social 
convention. Component leadership is therefore also more of a social 
convention. Everything that was a "component" is really now a "project" 
(or "subproject" if you prefer).

With Bug 324772 [1], we have managed to clean up the UNIX groups for the 
Eclipse project. Now, we have started a process of aligning the projects 
with these changes.

Platform Ant (eclipse.platform.ant) was flagged as a candidate for 
retirement. The project itself is meaningless as it existed only to 
provide a distinct UNIX group for committers; those committers (and the 
directories they have access to) have been moved (I'm not sure how, but 
I believe that information is available in one of the attachments on the 
bug).

Since Platform Debug and JDT Debug still exist in the new scheme, I'd 
like to suggest that we turn them into proper projects and assign the 
named committers as PLs. This change should really only mean that these 
"projects" will need to have a little portal metadata specified for them 
(set the "inherit" flag to true at a minimum). Let me know if this needs 
any more 'splainin'.

Please take a look at the list of projects that John has identified in 
the bug as retirement candidates and comment appropriately. Note that 
none of the listed projects have any actual meaning with regard to 
commit rights after the group cleanup.

Wayne

[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=324772



On 12/03/2010 10:50 AM, Daniel Megert wrote:
> Dear EMO,
>
> the Eclipse PMC has ratified the following new component leads:
>
> Michael Rennie for Platform Ant
> Pawel Piech for Platform Debug
> Michael Rennie for JDT Debug
>
> Not sure whether you need to approve this since this is below the
> (sub-project) level.
>
> Dani