Regarding this election. As far as I understand, it
should not have happened to begin with as I am listed as
an initial committer on the original Hudson proposal.
See:
http://eclipse.org/proposals/technology.hudson/
For reasons outside my control, I was not successfully
provisioned as a committer to the project upon initial
creation. (I received a notice of a failed election due
to expiration and missing paperwork. Unfortunately I was
never notified that I needed to submit any paperwork.)
My understanding that my being on the proposal should
be sufficient for me to have commit rights on the
project.
In terms of my contribution intentions, I have been
involved in the Hudson governance meetings, representing
Tasktop and we plan on making code contributions when
the project starts being released from Eclipse
infrastructure. I did not realize that this delay would
end up causing any problems of this sort.
In retrospect I should not have requested a new
election as I am joining Hudson as an initial
contributor. What I should have done, and what I am now
asking for is that I be added as an initial committer to
the project as specified in the proposal. The
alternative seems to be to have me refused the commit
rights I was initially granted and to re-earn them. I
don't see the point of that since like other committers
on the initial proposal I have been involved in the
project and have the intent to contribute. While it
seemed redundant, I was happy to see my intent endorsed
by the other committers with their vote.
I look forward to contributing to the project, and
hope we can find a straightforward way for Eclipse
Hudson to benefit from Tasktop's participation.
Regards,
--
Lucas Panjer
Software Engineer, Tasktop Sync and Cloud Services
778.588.6896 x116