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EMF/EMFT Committers,
Attached are the statistics collected from the portal's new "decommiterize"
information. There are a number of folks in EMFT for whom this process
would apply. I'll revisit this data in July and anyone who's inactive now
and still has not been active by July be considered elligible for removal.
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Ed Merks/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA
mailto: merks@xxxxxxxxxx
905-413-3265 (t/l 313)
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Bjorn
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04/15/2008 07:50 Time to trim inactive committers
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Project Leaders,
We've been muddling along for three years now with a large set of inactive
committers but the time has come to take bold action and trim the committer
lists. The latest data I have from the commits explorer is that only 50% of
listed committers have written any code at all in the last twelve months -
zero lines of code in a year which is pretty darn inactive.
We have built a new portal box to help you with "decommitterizing" your
inactive committers. Project leaders (such as yourselves), have an
additional [decommitterize] action in their project boxes on the portal:
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When you press that button, you get a list of all your project's committers
along with two pieces of activity information: (1) the number of committer
elections the person has participated in in the last year and (2) a
red-yellow-green activity indicator for source code commits. The activity
indicator follows the activity determinations on the standard project
information pages which is: active = commits within the last three months,
participating = nothing in the last three months but commits within the
last nine months, inactive = no commits in more than nine months.
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For each person you determine to be an inactive committer, simply press on
[remove] for that person and fill out the form. (Of course you can see the
whole process with the "explore" button.)
Eclipse Projects are predicated on having active committers and the
top-level project Charters reflect that:
"Active participation in the user newsgroup and the appropriate
developer mailing lists is a responsibility of all Committers, and is
critical to the success of the Project."
"Committers are required to monitor the developer mailing list
associated with all Projects and components for which they have
commit privileges. This is a condition of being granted commit rights
to the Project or component. It is mandatory because committers must
participate in votes ... and must respond to the mailing list in a
timely fashion in order to facilitate the smooth operation of the
Project. When a Committer is granted commit rights they will be added
to the appropriate mailing lists. A Committer must not be
unsubscribed from a developer mailing list unless their associated
commit privileges are also removed."
"At times, Committers may go inactive for a variety of reasons. The
decision making process of the Project relies on active committers
who respond to discussions and votes in a constructive and timely
manner. ... A Committer that is disruptive, does not participate
actively, or has been inactive for an extended period may have his or
her commit status removed by the PMC"
Thus it is clear that inactive committers must be removed from the
projects' committer lists.
One thing that a couple of people have mentioned is that they have left
some people on the lists to acknowledge their past contributions even
though they are currently not active. For example: John Weigand. While this
is admirable, it is not allowed by the project Charters - but all is not
lost! - we have added a new "Committer Emeritus" feature to the project
information pages (bug 222350). The [decommitterization] form has a
checkbox for you to nominate significant past contributors for Emeritus
status. There is no limit to the number of Committers Emeritus a project
can have, but this role should be a honor reserved for significant
contributors.
Obviously, if someone appears inactive in the limited stats I have
collected but you know them to be an active committer (maybe they answer
newsgroup posts or write tutorials or ??), then you are not required to
decommitterize them. The decisions are yours to make, but I encourage you
to trim more rather than less as "Active participation ... is critical to
the success of the Project."
I know you're busy, but it is important for the entire Eclipse community to
keep the committer list clean and active. Among other reasons, keeping the
committer list clean raises the value of being an Eclipse Committer so it's
in all of our best interest for you to take a few minutes, go to the portal
, and use the [decommitterization] tool to clean up your project's
committer list.
Thank you.
--
Bjorn
Freeman-Ben
son
Director,
Committer
Community
Eclipse
Foundation
voice: 971-327-7323 (Pacific Time)
email: bjorn.freeman-benson@xxxxxxxxxxx
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