Greetings distinguished members of the Eclipse Architecture Council.
As we've discussed in the past, I would like your input into the
process of selecting winners for our Great Fixes for Neon skills
competition [1].
We selected our first two winners during the face-to-face meeting at
EclipseCon. I've announced our first winner Eric Williams [2], and
our second winner Nathan Ridge [3].
We need to select the next winner, and I'd like to do this as
transparently as possible. The Candidates page [4] lists everybody
who has had a contribution accepted by a project that is
participating in the Neon release. This list is currently sorted so
that contributions to IDE projects are first and weighted based on
the number of contributions (with additional weight given to those
contributions in areas deemed significant in the list what we
provided to FEEP).
I believe that this list is more-or-less automatically selecting our
first set of winners, based on the volume of contribution; it's
going to get a little harder to select winners as we get to the end
of our list of ten. Note that this list is dynamic and will change
as contributions are accepted.
For our third winner, I'd like to go with the next person in the
list and suggest David Pursehouse who has had (as of May 2), 104
contributions to JGit accepted. I'm making this recommendation based
on the contributions in aggregate, not any single contribution. You
will notice that many of these contributions are tests which are
just as valuable as code contributions.
Please indicate your approval with a +1
Please also take a minute to consider our next candidate. For number
four, I think that the list is making a reasonable suggestion, but
still want to remain open to qualitative suggestions.
Your input is appreciated.
Thanks,
Wayne
[1]
https://www.eclipse.org/projects/greatfix
[2]
https://waynebeaton.wordpress.com/2016/04/20/great-fixes-from-eric-williams/
[3]
https://waynebeaton.wordpress.com/2016/05/02/great-fixes-from-nathan-ridge/
[4]
https://www.eclipse.org/projects/greatfix/candidates.php
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Wayne Beaton
@waynebeaton
The Eclipse Foundation