Re: [technology-pmc] [simopenpass-dev] PMC Approval required for Committ

[EMO EMO <emo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My apologies for the long delay.

AFAICT there is no IP exposure here. Since David works for the same employer as Reinhard, the copyright is correctly recorded (typically, the employer is the copyright holder and, since David and Reinhard work for the same employer, this information is accurately recorded). So, while the exact steps of the process have not been followed, the fundamental underlying principles that the process is designed to uphold have been preserved. 

It's always better if author information is correct and--as we move forward--I expect that care will be taken to ensure that author information is accurately tracked (note that listing additional authors is supported via the convention of using "Also-by" entries in the commit message).

I'm inclined to leave the repository as-is and approve the election based on Reinhard's assertion.

Gunnar are you satisfied with this?

Wayne

On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 10:43 AM Biegel, Reinhard <reinhard.biegel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Gunnar,

I already noticed that I might have violated the process by not setting the Author field.
Up to now I thought my method is in accordance with Developer's Certificate of Origin (c) located in the ECA.
I'll contact the Eclipse Webmaster to coordinate the cleanup of the repository.

Reinhard

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Von: Gunnar Wagenknecht <gunnar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Gesendet: Montag, 21. September 2020 15:29
An: Biegel, Reinhard <reinhard.biegel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: EMO EMO <emo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Technology PMC <technology-pmc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Betreff: Re: [technology-pmc] [simopenpass-dev] PMC Approval required for Committer Election for David Weiß on Eclipse sim@openPASS

Reinhard,

There should be a trace *somewhere* of David’s contributions - either Bugzilla with a patch, a Gerrit review, a post to the mailing list .... literally anything would do. However, you cannot just take his contributions and commit them to Git in your name not giving any credits to David. Worse, if there is no public record I believe *you* just committed a violation of the Eclipse Foundation Development Process. Yikes!

Can you work with the Eclipse Webmaster ASAP to rewrite the Git history for proper attribution of David's contributions? Once this is fixed we have the record and can approve the election.

Note, rewriting Git history is a destructive process, i.e. incoming links to specific commits will break as such an operation. However, there is no really other option. We should clean up this mess.


Please read through the project handbook here:
https://www.eclipse.org/projects/handbook/#ip-project-content

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Contributions by others (i.e., developers who are not committers on the receiving project) must be received via an Eclipse Foundation channel (e.g., GitHub pull request, Gerrit review, or attachment on an issue).

[details when CQ is required]

All contributions of project content must be tracked in the project’s IP Log. This is done automatically when the author information is correctly specified in Git commit records (e.g., the content creator’s credentials are correctly recorded in the author field of Git commit records).
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More details on Git Commit records is here:
https://www.eclipse.org/projects/handbook/#resources-commit




-Gunnar

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> On Sep 21, 2020, at 14:55, Biegel, Reinhard <reinhard.biegel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Yes, you are right regarding your assumption that I have created the commits containing David’s contributions. This is what I tried to say with my last message, linking to these commits.
> I expected the work on the project code provided by David would be sufficient to justify the acceptance as a committer.
> If this is not the case, David will demonstrate his participation on the development process on the next possible occasions.
> 
> Reinhard
> 
> Von: wayne.beaton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <wayne.beaton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Im Auftrag von EMO EMO
> Gesendet: Freitag, 18. September 2020 15:07
> An: Biegel, Reinhard <reinhard.biegel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: technology-pmc PMC List <technology-pmc@xxxxxxxxxxx>; Eclipse Management Organization <emo@xxxxxxxxxxx>; simopenpass developer discussions <simopenpass-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Betreff: Re: [simopenpass-dev] PMC Approval required for Committer Election for David Weiß on Eclipse sim@openPASS
> 
> I'm confused. You're listed as the author and committer on all of these commits, not David.
> 
> What, specifically, is the nature of David's contribution in these examples? e.g., did David write the code and give it to you to commit?
> 
> Do you have any examples that demonstrate that David understands the Eclipse Foundation Development Process? I'm looking for examples of direct engagement with the process. If David is to join the team as a committer, we have to have some confidence that he understands the development process and his obligations under the Eclipse IP Policy.
> 
> Wayne
> 
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 4:25 AM Biegel, Reinhard <reinhard.biegel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Wayne,
> 
> David has contributed various smaller fixes and features. Recent examples:
> https://git.eclipse.org/r/plugins/gitiles/simopenpass/simopenpass/+/32ebb528d28066302a5b77d152690e12b5475008
> https://git.eclipse.org/r/plugins/gitiles/simopenpass/simopenpass/+/b4e46777b6ca438d1413762992ae7fc0b24a0f2c
> https://git.eclipse.org/r/plugins/gitiles/simopenpass/simopenpass/+/a22f97c255a3b9f3587654608334356d67f4ae5d
> https://git.eclipse.org/r/plugins/gitiles/simopenpass/simopenpass/+/c1dd23a129288019f844309ac993499bab84ed26
> https://git.eclipse.org/r/plugins/gitiles/simopenpass/simopenpass/+/051b0fc3e62d7e290ecd42c34dfb2e91cea7b3bb
> 
> Bigger changes to the vital “World” component (which represents the whole simulated environment inside of openPASS):
> https://git.eclipse.org/r/plugins/gitiles/simopenpass/simopenpass/+/265696ee4cf00ae4ccaebbb86a427d5a17866e85
> https://git.eclipse.org/r/plugins/gitiles/simopenpass/simopenpass/+/48b9c7411da3451f7aa92dccb61961cad1067df5
> 
> He did major parts of the recent repository restructure here:
> https://git.eclipse.org/r/plugins/gitiles/simopenpass/simopenpass/+/94d377234fac22a7c2faeacf5c920000b7a33f83
> 
> Best regards,
> Reinhard
> 
> Von: simopenpass-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx <simopenpass-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> Im Auftrag von EMO EMO
> Gesendet: Freitag, 18. September 2020 06:17
> An: technology-pmc PMC List <technology-pmc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Eclipse sim@openPASS Dev List <simopenpass-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>; Eclipse Management Organization <emo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Betreff: Re: [simopenpass-dev] PMC Approval required for Committer Election for David Weiß on Eclipse sim@openPASS
> 
> David Weiss is part of the openPASS Team at in-tech for more than two years now. Since then, David contributed a vast amount of code, especially related to the World OSI implementation of openPASS.
> 
> Can you point to specific contributions or commits that David has made to an Eclipse sim@openPASS Git repository?
> 
> Wayne
> 
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 12:01 AM <emo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The Committer Election for David Weiß on project Eclipse sim@openPASS
> (technology.simopenpass) concluded successfully.
>
> PMC leads and members can click the election link below to review and
> approve.
>
> Election:
> https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.simopenpass/elections/election-david-wei%C3%9F-committer-eclipse-simopenpass
>
> Project: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.simopenpass
>
>
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