Christian,
The process for “vaulting of individuals into committer
positions” IS the Termination Review, AFAIK. To be clear, a Termination
Review does not automatically mean the project/component will be terminated/archived;
it gives the community the chance to step up and potentially do a reboot. I don’t
think we can/should replace all of the committers (only one in this case) with
new ones via the usual voting process unless we can justify the new committers based
on meritocracy…
Cheers,
Kenn
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From:
emf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:emf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Christian W.Damus
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 8:40 AM
To: PMC members mailing list
Cc: MDT OCL mailing list; Eclipse Modelling Framework
Subject: [emf-dev] Re: [mdt-ocl.dev] Transition Plan for MDT OCL and
EMF"QTV" Components?
Hi,
Thanks to Anthony, Cédric, and Bernd for expressing
willingness to commit to the continued vitality of these components! It's
great to see such support.
Just to be clear, again: as I understand it,
Termination Review is the only process by which a project's committer team
might be changed en masse on events such as this, and the
preferred outcome for all stakeholders is always that the project continue
under new leadership with a new committer team.
If there is another mechanism available, or if the Modeling
PMC can direct a transition, please let me know! I prefer a smooth
transition of these components into willing and capable hands. For
example, if the PMC can approve the vaulting of individuals into committer
positions that they would not, under normal circumstances, yet have earned,
then that works for me.
Kenn? Ed? What is your recommendation as PMC
reps for the projects involved?
On 11-Mar-09, at 5:30 PM, Christian W. Damus wrote:
Hello, my PMC,
As most of you already know, I have been unemployed for some time now.
That interval is now coming to an end, to my great relief.
However, in my new employment, the job description does not include time to
spend on development of the Eclipse Modeling components on which I am currently
a committer. Nor would I expect it to, as the work is quite removed from
the MDD sphere.
I would not be able to contribute as a committer on these components to the
standard expected of the Eclipse community, and certainly not my own standard,
on my own personal time. Therefore, I shall need to relinquish my
committer rights on the MDT OCL component and the EMF Query, Transaction, and
Validation components as of next week.
The problem is, of course, that I am the only committer on these components.
As I understand the Eclipse process, a Project that finds itself without
any committers proceeds to Termination Review in the hope that the project can
be re-staffed. Is the same true of Components? Can we assume that
the rules of the new process (in which these components that are still
Components would be Projects) should apply?
Please advise.
Thanks,
Christian
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