| RE: [eclipse.org-project-leadership] Time to trim inactive committers |
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Bjorn, Here’s an example (for the MDT project). The portal shows this:
Based on this information, one might think that Nick Dowler,
Miguel Garcia, A. Jibran Shidiqie, and Yves YANG are inactive, but this is
because the components on which they are committers have just recently been
provisioned. Dash shows this (http://dash.eclipse.org/dash/commits/web-app/active-committers.cgi?project=modeling.mdt):
Here, we can see that only some of the cells beside the
committers mentioned above are shaded; as far as I can tell, this corresponds
to the fact that they’ve only been committers for that long. So, as project
lead, I would consider only gxie, mli, and pyue as truly inactive because all
of the cells beside them are shaded. Cheers, Kenn
Hussey
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On Behalf Of Bjorn Freeman-Benson Kenn, (all) The “inactive” status isn’t entirely accurate
for projects/components that are new (i.e. it’s possible that committers
haven’t committed anything yet because the project /component was only
recently provisioned). It seems that Dash has the information to make this
distinction (based on the shaded cells that appear in the active committers
report); could the new portal box be modified to reflect this distinction? Could you point me to an example project so that I can
understand what you're suggesting? I agree that the source code commits
activity information is only an indication, a hint, at the activity or
inactivity of a committer - as project lead, you know much more about the
project than any automated tool could. Another observation is that the election participation
information isn’t as useful for projects with components since not every
committer is eligible to vote in every election (mind you, this will be
addressed if/when the proposed changes to the development process are approved;
when do you expect that might happen, by the way?). Again, you are correct and you
are the final arbitrator of committer activity. The current Foundation database
(as you point out), does not have enough information to determine the committer
elections. -- |
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