Re: [recommenders-dev] Annual committer list clean up

[Marcel Bruch <marcel.bruch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all, 

first: a happy new year to all  - except our Chinese mailing list members which still live in 2012 until February ;-)
Anyways, have a great 2013!

To sum up and close this discussion for now:

I didn't hear back from Andreas and Chen. I wrote them a few emails some time ago in October already and did not get an answer since. So I think it's save to assume they are not following the project anymore. I'll revoke their committer status soon. Sebastian decided to give back his committer rights. Doug, Johannes and Stefan wish to keep committer status. I'm fine with this but please keep in mind that being a committer requires some activity like commits, code reviews, blog posts, participating in polls or generally helping the project to evolve. Without participation being committer doesn't make sense. So, please get involved to get Recommenders ready for Kepler!

I'll also restart the committer vote for Andreas (committer on recommenders), Cheng and Tong (committer on recommenders.incubator) soon. Please vote with +1, 0, -1. If you have any questions or concerns please let us know on the list before voting. Note that not voting is no option.

Thanks,
Marcel


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On Dec 30, 2012, at 12:32 AM, Stefan Henß <stefan.henss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Marcel and the others,
> 
> sorry for missing the committers vote. I had noticed the mails, but forgot to act over Christmas.
> 
> I would very much like to remain a committer to the project. However, I plan to do my BA electives this summer and therefore should not have enough spare time for a another full-scale project next semester. Since there probably won't be many bug/change requests on my old code, I would understand if my status was (temporarily) revoked due to inactivity.
> 
> Best,
> Stefan
> 
> On 12/28/2012 10:08 AM, Marcel Bruch wrote:
>> Hi Sebastian,
>> Hi Recommenders-dev,
>> 
>> thanks for your response and thanks for the time you spent on the project, Sebastian. I'm sad to hear that you won't find the time to continue working on this project. Given your past records, I'd like propose to change your state to "Committer Emeritus" - if you like and no one else has objections. 
>> 
>> 
>> Given the results of the last poll, it seems that a reactivation of the old committers - or a cleanup - is needed to continue the project. When committer elections fail due to not participating (not voting at all - not giving "0") this is not good. It may be because of Christmas but I think it's not the cause why the election failed. I'd like to detail a little bit about the status of every current committer. A copy of this  mail goes to all committer's email address directly to make sure they receive it.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Andreas Kaluza was one of the initial committers for the project and student working with Johannes, Stefan and me on the Code Recommenders project in 2010. Unfortunately he never found the time to commit code to the project after his initial version of call chain completion. Andreas, can you briefly respond to this email?
>> 
>> Stefan Henss is as master student at Darmstadt University of Technology and currently heading for another project/master thesis. It seems he's not listening to the list anymore. Stefan, are you interested to keep the committer status?
>> 
>> Johannes Lerch worked a lot on the Code Recommenders project in 2011 but his research area shifted last year towards security mining. Johannes, do you want to keep committer status - and help to project to evolve (at least by responding to committer votes in recommenders/recommenders.incubator and and architectural questions)?
>> 
>> Chen Cheng was a GSOC student on who worked on Snipmatch and who quickly after the final evaluation disappeared. I assume that his committer rights can be revoked safely even after this short period. Chen, let me know when I'm wrong by responding to this email.
>> 
>> Doug Wightman. Doug, you and your students contributed Snipmatch some time ago (is it a year ago already?). Committer status also requires some level of participation such as participating in committer elections and helping the project to grow. Can you explain what your plans look like with Snipmatch and your committer status?
>> 
>> 
>> The last poll results show that we cannot continue with such a long list of passive committers. Please respond to this email and let us know how to continue.
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Marcel
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> On Dec 24, 2012, at 4:40 PM, Sebastian Proksch <sebastian@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hey Marcel,
>>> 
>>> I was not very active in the last year, teaching at the university
>>> took its toll. :(
>>> 
>>> Read-only access to the repository is all I need to continue my
>>> current work, feel free to revoke my committer rights.
>>> 
>>> Thank you for the opportunity to get insights in such an innovative project.
>>> 
>>> best regards
>>> Sebastian
>>> 
>>> 2012/12/21 Marcel Bruch <marcel.bruch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>> It's time for the annual committer list cleanup. If you are a committer of Recommenders being listed as inactive in [1], please let me know (by responding to this note) that you'd like to remain a committer on Code Recommenders or Code Recommenders Incubator.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Marcel
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