Thread-topic: [automotive-pmc] URGENT: Several committer elections are awaiting your approval
Dear Andy,
I’m responding regarding the committer nomination for the S-Core project, since the communication happened behind the
scenes and I’d like to clarify the situation.
His nomination was approved by nine project participants.
The nomination includes links to:
Florian’s commits in the score organization, showing his contributions.
Baselibs repository statistics, which show Florian is one of the main contributors to that repo.
Florian’s GitHub profile, where you can review his activity, reviews, and issues he has created.
From my experience nominating committers over the past year, I’d like to offer a few observations and a request:
To my understanding, the Automotive PMC is not directly part of our project and therefore may not be in the best position to judge the project’s day-to-day contributors and their roles. The most reliable
input for committer elections comes from votes by active project participants.
I believe the committer election process would benefit from a formal definition of the metrics and evidence required for approval. Elections should be a factual, yes-or-no decision based on clearly defined
criteria, rather than an essay-style appeal to convince external reviewers.
Could you please:
Tell me which specific information was missing that prevented the PMC from making a decision on Florian’s election over the last two months.
Provide a link to any existing formal criteria the PMC uses to evaluate committer elections. If no such criteria exist, please propose one or let me know if you’d like me to draft a suggested set of concrete
metrics and evidence to present going forward.
Thank you in advance for your help!
Kind regards,
Anton
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Von: automotive-pmc <automotive-pmc-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> im Auftrag von Andreas Riexinger via automotive-pmc <automotive-pmc@xxxxxxxxxxx> Datum: Montag, 13. Juli 2026 um 18:22 An: Automotive PMC discussions <automotive-pmc@xxxxxxxxxxx>; score-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx <score-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andreas Riexinger <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Betreff: Re: [automotive-pmc] URGENT: Several committer elections are awaiting your approval
Sent from outside the BMW organization - be CAUTIOUS, particularly with links and attachments.
Absender außerhalb der BMW Organisation - Bitte VORSICHT beim Öffnen von Links und Anhängen.
Unfortunately, there was a discussion behind the curtain between a S-CORE project lead and one member of the Automotive PMC, where the PMC asked for clarification and information on the mailing list.
Please provide the information on the Automotive PMC mailing list and we are happy to discuss the nomination in our next meeting.
Best,
Andy
On behalf of the Automotive PMC
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Before voting on these elections, we would like to complete our PMC review.
As part of our governance responsibilities, we try to ensure that nominations are sufficiently supported by evidence of the nominee's merit-based contributions to the project.
In several of the current nominations, we found the rationale to be rather high level, while concrete references to project contributions (e.g., commits, reviews, issues, specifications, or other community
activities) are largely missing.
We'll therefore take some time to collect and review the relevant evidence ourselves before casting our votes.
Our next Automotive PMC meeting is on Monday, where we typically discuss elections that require additional review.
We therefore expect to complete the review and vote on these nominations after that meeting.
Thanks for your understanding.
Best regards
Lukas
PS: Just FYI, despite the outstanding approvals, the notification area remains empty for me:
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On 7/7/2026 3:33 PM, Wayne Beaton via automotive-pmc wrote:
Greeting Eclipse Automotive PMC.
Several committer elections are awaiting your approval. Can you please have a look?
FYI, the EMO is aware that our notification system is flawed. If you miss the email amid the noise (or the message gets marked as spam) you won't even know that matters are awaiting your attention.
The PMI has a helpful feature, but it's not especially easy to find: the "Profile" icon in the top-right corner of the
PMI includes an option to list notifications. As a PMC member, the list of notifications should include the outstanding elections requiring your attention.
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I will connect with the team to see if we can do more to ensure these do not slip through the cracks.
