[rest-dev] Nomination for Extra Project Lead: James R. Perkins

[Markus KARG <markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fellow Committers,

triggered by a problematic situation in another former Java EE project, 
where the project lead felt sick for more than one year, I would like to 
propose that we install a backup for that role in our spec project. Not 
being dependend of a single point of failure helps to prevent getting 
stuck in similar situations. As engineers we pretty good know that it is 
always good to have redundancy, "just in case". Also, while I do 
appreciate Santiago doing a great job in the past years, he was never 
officially elected (as per the Eclipse Foundation's rules), so it might 
make sense, to strengthen our project's formal organization by having 
elections for project leadership.

Therefore, I like to propose the nomimation of James R. Perkins (IBM) as 
an ADDITIONAL project lead besides Santago, and to explicitly "confirm 
for formal reasons" Santiago as our CONTINUED project lead. For both 
movements I like to reach consensus on this mailing list, as it makes no 
sense to perform official elections if somebody would veto it anyways. 
So I am kindly asking ALL COMMITTERS of this project to briefly comment 
on this movement within the next days. If I do not receive any veto or 
otherwise good reason for holding me back, I will then file the 
nominations on the EF's official voting platform. Thank you!

To make clear: The role of "Project Lead" is just a MANAGEMENT position 
between the EMO (the EF's formal organization) and our own project. Its 
main duty is to do all the paperwork needed for releases, committer 
elections, etc. He is in particular responsible that our project follows 
the EF's rules. A project lead is NOT an owner of the code or the 
project, NOR has any other powers, veto rights, etc. inside the project 
itself, compared to any other committer. Also, a project lead is NOT a 
marketing or dev rel position. Just in case you did not know already.

For those who did not work with them so far:

James did a great management job in the current and recent releases 
sorting out all the issues and branches, and my personal view is that 
without him, we possibly wouldn't have had the last, or wouldn't have 
the next release, at least not within the official time frames. I am 
grateful for his dedication and esprit, and it was a pleasure to work 
with him before and behind the scenes. James, please confirm that you 
would accept a nomination for project leadership.

After I managed the first few JAX-RS minor releases on my own, it was 
Santiago who took over release management for many years, and he did 
(and does) a great job. I know what a lot of work that was, and he was 
the rock we built upon. Thank you for taking all that time! I would be 
glad, if you would confirm that you "formally accept" this re-nomination 
to finally get elected as our project lead.

To make it absolutely clear: Both nominations are NOT 
exclusive/alternative choices. My proposal is that we elect BOTH as 
project leads. This is DEFINITIVELY NOT an attempt to "unelect" Santiago!

Requesting Comments! :-)

Regards

-Markus