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RE: [dsdp-pmc] PMC approval needed for committer vote for JYHSU

Hi Mark,
 
You are right, of course, that working on patches does create a bit
of work on behalf of both the Contributor and the existing committers.
 
My personal opinion, though, is that it's worth taking this extra
work for at least 3 patches from new committers-to-be in order
to establish some relationship of trust through publicly visible
contributions, before making somebody a committer.
 
On the other hand, though, I checked the DSDP charter as well
as the Eclipse Development Process, and couldn't find the
"3 patch" rule anywhere. It must reads:
 
"Becoming a Committer is a privilege that is earned by contributing and showing discipline and good judgment."
 
So, it's up to the project (eRCP and DSDP toplevel project) to define
what "contributing, discipline and judgement" means to you folks.
 
I'll thus waive the 3-patch-limit that I wanted to impose on you, and
let yourself (and the rest of the PMC) decide how you want to proceed.
I'm not going to vote -1 in this case, I'm casting a "0" vote since I have
no chance to judge JYHSU I'll need to let others judge.
 
If others are interested, here are the docs that I found -- there might be
other docs with the 3-patch-limit explicitly mentioned, but I didn't find them.
 
http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/Eclipse_Standard_TopLevel_Charter_v1.0.php
 
http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/development_process.php#4_4_Project_Team
 
http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/new-committer.php
 
Cheers,
--
Martin Oberhuber, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Wind River
Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member
http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm
 
 


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Martin,

I agree we should try to be consistent in creating new committers. I don't agree with you though regarding having a committer colleague means there is not so much value in John becoming a committer. A big point of adding John as a committer is to relieve work load on existing committers, who otherwise have to review and commit his patches. Also, people tend to come and go, so it is important to keep attrition from reducing our experienced committers.

                Mark



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Well,
 
I haven't voted yet, I just wanted this matter discussed. But anyhow, I think
that the same rules should apply to everyone, so yes, I would like to see
3 patches from John on bugzilla before making him a committer.
 
If he works so collaboratively indeed, then this shouldn't be a problem
since he can ask colleagues to apply his patches easily and there
is not really so much value in whether he is committer or not.
 
What's important to me, is that committers create some understanding
about the legal processes involved in committing code to the repository.
And having to operate bugzilla patches themselves for a while forces
them to at least think a little about what it means to commit some code.
 
The other thing is that being a committer does include some rights on
votes, so if only 35% of the existing committers voted while the others
were out of office, a malicious person might think that some company
X wanted to bring in a new member while the members of company Y
had no chance to comment on it. I'm sure that this is not true, and I
do not know what sort of company diversity you have in eRCP, so please
consider this just as "food for thought and could be".
 
My 2 cents,
--
Martin Oberhuber, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Wind River
Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member
http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm
 
 


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I wouldn't read too much into lack of response during July since it is the height of summer vacation season.


John has been working in the same office with existing committers so I think his work has been more collaborative than working independently to submit patches.

So, Martin and Doug, are you voting "-1" until John submits public patches, and then we will re-vote. How many patches would you like to see?


               Mark



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I agree,

 

I'd like to see more public record of JYHSU's contributions. The cited comments

on
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=219426 are nice but a bit
thin to grant committer status right away.

 

Also, just getting 5 votes out of 13 committers is just 35% voters within a week,

perhaps you'd want to consider marking some committers inactive?

 

Note that John can be a very productive developer for eSWT just by
providing patches for a while, without full committer status yet, until

he has a proven track of records.

 

Cheers,

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Martin Oberhuber
, Senior Member of Technical Staff,
Wind River
Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member

http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm
 
 


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Hi Mark,

 
It would be nice to see a list of Bugzilla patches for this committer that demonstrate his contributions.

 
Doug

 
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+1 from Rogalski

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dsdp PMC Members,
This automatically generated message marks the completion of voting for
JYHSU's Committer status on the dsdp.ercp project. As a PMC member, you can
approve or disapprove this vote through your My Foundation portal page:

 
http://portal.eclipse.org/

JYHSU was nominated by Uriel Liu as follows:
I'd like to nominate John Hsu, who started his contribution to eRCP from
xmlParser with the owner Philippe. He answered question in bugzilla(219426)
recently and also works on other eswt bugs. He will join the developement
of eSWT on windows flavors.


Vote summary: 5/0/0 with 8 pending
+1  Julian J W Chen
?  Gorkem Ercan
+1  Eric MF Hsu
?  Philippe Krief
?  Bernd Lachner
+1  Uriel Liu
?  Phil Loats
+1  Petru Motrescu
?  Danail Nachev
+1  Mark Rogalski
?  Jussi Suistomaa
?  Aleksi Uotila
?  Ken Walker


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