| Re: [iot-pmc] PMC Approval required for Committer Election for Ian Craggs on Sparkplug |
Hi Jens,
I confess to not being familiar with the Eclipse specification
process, so I'm not sure how things are expected to work. The
principal reason that Dominik nominated me was to take advantage
of my experience of working on the MQTT and MQTT-SN specifications
at OASIS. I was secretary as well as a voting member for the MQTT
5.0 specification and am currently co-chair of the MQTT-SN
specification committee. Apart from my experience in the
specification process, SparkPlug is also related to MQTT so there
are two levels of connection.
The main goal is to allow my full participation in the
specification process for SparkPlug, attending working group
meetings, and being able to vote on any resolutions, as well as
contributing documentation updates and software.
I looked at the membership prospectus for the working group
(https://f.hubspotusercontent10.net/hubfs/5413615/sparkplug-member-prospectus%202020.pdf)
and concluded that I could join as an individual participant
member for the fee of $500 (and signing the participation
agreement). But then Ian Skerrett checked with the Eclipse
organization (I don't know who), and suggested this committer
election route as a result.
Obviously I don't need to be a committer to submit PRs to the
project, which I am quite happy to do. It is membership of the
working group that I'm aiming for. I don't know if those are
different things or not.
Ian
There is precedent for using established expertise in a related field as the criteria for a committer election. This is, IMHO, especially true for specification projects. As specification projects are industry expert groups, past contributions elsewhere that establish an individual's credentials in the domain area should be taken into consideration when determining merit.
Wayne
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 3:53 AM Jens Reimann <jreimann@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi PMC,Hi Ian,
I am having a bit of concerns approving this request.
I am definitely not doubting the achievements of Ian when it comes to MQTT, as listed in the nomination in a transparent manner.
However, these are not contributions to the Sparkplug project. As far as I understood the nomination, you expect Ian to contribute to Sparkplug "in the future".
As "future" contributions don't count, for me that would be a reason to reject the request for a normal Eclipse project. However, to my understanding, Sparkplug is more a specification project. So let's discuss if that should be treated differently.
Cheers
Jens
On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 6:12 AM <emo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The Committer Election for Ian Craggs on project Sparkplug (iot.sparkplug)
concluded successfully.
PMC leads and members can click the election link below to review and
approve.
Election:
https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/iot.sparkplug/elections/election-ian-craggs-committer-sparkplug
Project: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/iot.sparkplug
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