| [modeling-pmc] Re: nominations and elections |
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Modeling PMC, I was looking through some recent nominations and elections for Modeling projects and I saw a number of nominations that include bugzilla queries rather than concrete lists of bugs fixed. For example: - as a newsgroup active member: http://www.eclipse.org/search/search.cgi?q=mikael+barbero&cmd=Search%21&for m=extended&wf=574a74&ps=10&m=all&t=5&ul=%2Fnewslists%2Fnews.eclipse.modelin g.m2m&wm=wrd&t=News&t=Mail - as a bug reporter on GMT/ATL: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relev ance+desc&bug_status=__all__&product=GMT&content=mikael+barbero While I understand that these queries take less time to type in, they also do not provide the frozen-in-time snapshot for the larger Eclipse community that nominations are really supposed to provide. Consider a new Eclipse member, a new potential contributor, who joins Eclipse next January: this person will look back through the project's mailing list archives to see "does this project have good committers? what does it take to become a committer?". If they click on those query links in January, they will get a different picture of what it takes to be elected a committer than if they click on those links today - n'est pas? That is why we nominations should include fixed urls rather than queries. I hope that the Modeling PMC will support, encourage, and enforce this in the future - thanks. - Bjorn |