Ian (and all the phoenix-devs),
I am not
sure why you are creating a higher
standard for Nathan. When Mike nominated Donald to be a committer you
did
not have these concerns?
It's not about Nathan versus Donald. It's about whether I was paying
attention or not (to be honest, I wasn't when the Donald nomination
went through) and about the effort this year to return the quality of
various Eclipse project things (committers, releases, APIs, etc) to the
level of quality that everyone at Eclipse has signed up for.
Regarding
your suggestions to move
forward, why is it not good enough to have the discussion on a public
mailing list?
I'm confused - isn't this (phoenix-dev) a public mailing list?
A lot of
the work done on the web site is content related and we
have not been entering bugzilla requests for these types of things.
Starting
to enter bugzilla requesst just to have Nathan voted as a committer
seems
artificial and bureaucratic.
I can see your point, but that's the way the process works - we need to
have a public trail for others to be able to evaluate a potential new
committer. Being a committer on an Eclipse project is a big deal; it
should not be rushed. Being a committer means that your work no longer
needs to be reviewed.
Regardless,
here is what I believe Nathan
has done and I believe it is available for all to review.
But until you said this on this list, nobody except you and Denis knew
this, right? So it wasn't done in public.
But again, the work wasn't done in public.
4. Nathan
will be doing a number of pages
for the Eclipse Awards. I will review them and commit them next
week. Unfortunately they can not go public until March 21, for obvious
reasons.
P.S. You realize that if you commit them next week they become public,
right? Because the CVS is publically readable.
Bjorn, are
there specific things you would
like Nathan to work on, so you can review his work?
As you can tell by querying bugzilla, I am trying to field all the
incoming Phoenix bugs that Nathan is fixing and applying and reviewing
the patches. I am trying to be very proactive about reviewing his work
(both the patches I apply and the patches that others apply) so that I
can gather enough data to remove my veto.
I understand that you are frustrated. The bar is being raised (back to
where it once was) for all the projects.
- Bjorn
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