Greetings PMC.
I've just declared success for the Creation Reviews for four of our new projects.
Eclipse GlassFish
Eclipse Project for JACC
Eclipse Project for Servlet
Eclipse Project for JSP
FWIW, I picked four because we've just rolled out an update to our committer provisioning (paperwork) process, and I wanted to try it out on a subset of the projects.
There's a bit of a corner case in the new implementation that I'd like to observe the impact of: if somebody is not already a committer and is added to multiple projects at the same time, they're going to be asked multiple times for their paperwork. AFAICT, we have a small number of future committers in this state.
I've gone through the proposals, looking specifically for cases where the system thinks that it doesn't recognise somebody. We use email addresses to match the committer name in the proposal to the committer record in our database; I found a few cases where a different email address was used and changed them to match what we have. I can explain this in gory detail if anybody wants me to.
I've going to hit the "turn this proposal into a project" ("create") buttons on these proposal shortly.
I'll schedule the rest of the proposals that are currently in the community review state for creation on May 16th. Note that I'm pruning out committers who do not have an Eclipse Foundation account before I hit "create".
By way of exlaining the process... the proposal lists committers. From the perspective of a project proposal, you can think of these as proposed committers. Proposed committers can be changed up until the date that we start the week-long Creation Review. After we declare success on the Creation Review, we initiate the project provisioning process. The first part of this provisioning process is to request that the proposed committers complete the required committer paperwork. With the paperwork complete, they become an actual committer.
The webmaster will only start provisioning project resources after we have one person who has completed the committer paperwork process. Note that all of these projects have at least one existing committer and that the paperwork process is more-or-less automatic for existing committers.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Wayne
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Wayne Beaton
Director of Open Source Projects
The Eclipse Foundation
