Re: [technology-pmc] PMC approval needed for committer vote for Judith G

[Wayne Beaton <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Eric.

There are four ongoing committer elections for Scout. I'm curious to
know why these four committers weren't listed on the project proposal?
They sure sound like people who should have been made committers from
the beginning.

In the strictest sense, Eric, I believe that you are correct. However, I
think that in this case, our requirements document is deficient, not
these particular elections. IMHO, "has been working on Scout for several
years" is a reasonable enough demonstration of merit for a mature
project that's been moved to Eclipse. I think that this is very much in
line with the spirit of our values with regard to committer elections.
Again, in this case, I think it's strange that these people weren't
included with the initial project committers.

FWIW there is significant precedent in numerous Eclipse projects for
making "acknowledged subject-matter experts" into committers in the
absence of an eclipse.org meritocracy trail.

Rather than veto these election, I respectfully suggest that we approve
them on the basis of the indicated experience with the code. Also, I
recommend that we (the Technology PMC) spend a few minutes to update our
policy document to better reflect reality.

Wayne

Eric Rizzo wrote:
> Matthias & Andreas,
> In accordance with the committer elections policy
> (http://wiki.eclipse.org/Technology#Committer_Elections), each
> nomination should include specific evidence of the person's
> contributions to the project. The most typical evidence is Eclipse
> bugzilla entries that included patches which were reviewed and
> committed by an existing committer.
> I'm sure the recent candidates are sufficiently qualified, but in the
> interest of openness and meritocracy, please re-submit those
> nominations with the supporting evidence so that we may approve.
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
>
> On 11/30/10 5:56 PM, portal on behalf of emo wrote:
>> technology PMC Members,
>> This automatically generated message marks the completion of voting for
>> Judith Gull's Committer status on the technology.scout project. As a PMC
>> member, you can approve or disapprove this vote through your My
>> Foundation
>> portal page:
>>
>>      http://portal.eclipse.org/
>>
>> Judith Gull was nominated by Matthias Zimmermann as follows:
>> judith has contributed over 20 bug fixes since july 2010
>>
>>
>> Vote summary: 4/0/0 with 0 not voting
>>    +1  Andreas Hoegger
>>    +1  Stephan Leicht
>>    +1  Ivan Motsch
>>    +1  Matthias Zimmermann
>>
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