Re: [ditto-dev] Retirement of inactive Ditto Committers and inactive Pro

["Glocker Gerald (BD/DPA-IID)" <Gerald.Glocker@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Thomas, Ditto community,

I am all fine with retiring from Eclipse Ditto & project lead role.
It’s been a great journey and I wish all the best to the project – but I am active on other topics these days.

Thanks a lot, especially to you, Thomas, for your ongoing engagement!

Best regards,
Gerald

--

Gerald Glocker
​
From: ditto-dev <ditto-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Thomas Jäckle via ditto-dev
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2024 5:40 PM
To: ditto-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Thomas Jäckle <thomas.jaeckle@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ditto-dev] Retirement of inactive Ditto Committers and inactive Project Lead

Hello Ditto committers and former committers.

Adhering to the security best practices of the Eclipse Foundation, Eclipse projects are asked to regularly check for inactive committers and retire those, if they were inactive for a long time.
Reasoning behind this is to avoid potential vulnerabilities brought to the projects by former committers or leaked committer credentials.
Also voting on e.g. adding new committers to the project will not work if the majority of former committers are no longer active and do not vote.

The suggestion of inactivity in the handbook ranges from 6 months to 1 year.
Here we can see the Git commits since 01.01.2023 (so almost the last 2 years) on the Ditto main repository:
https://github.com/eclipse-ditto/ditto/graphs/contributors?from=01%2F01%2F2023

Existing Eclipse Ditto committers which were active during this time are:
* Thomas Jaeckle
* Aleksandar Stanchev

Referring to the Eclipse Handbook section "Committer Retirement" (https://www.eclipse.org/projects/handbook/#elections-retire-cm), I propose retirement of the following inactive committers (see https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/iot.ditto/who):
* David Schwilk
* Yannic Bürgmann
* Stefan Maute
* Florian Fendt
* Dominik Guggemos
* Yufei Cai
* Gerald Glocker
* Johannes Schneider
* Juergen Fickel
* Daniel Fesenmeyer

I also suggest retiring the inactive project lead from his PL role:
* Gerald Glocker

The committers and project lead have the chance to respond and speak up if they do not agree with their retirement in order to be given a chance to defend retaining their status.
I will perform the "retirements" (sorry, no retirement provision available) in 1 month, after 2 years of inactivity.

As all committers of an Eclipse project are automatically subscribed to the *-dev mailing list of the projects they commit to, I am sure that this message will reach all of you.
I am extremely grateful for the contributions of all former Ditto committers and want to thank you for all the high quality work you did on the project.

You can of course at any time continue to contribute to the Eclipse Ditto project - and can also regain "Committer" status again, by demonstrating merit, e.g. in form of contributions and participation in discussions.
I would be personally very happy about this :-)


Best regards from
Thomas, your Ditto project lead :-)