Greetings PMC. I
have a bit of a extraordinary circumstance.
The
Project Lead for Marketplace Client has resigned. As his last act, he
nominated Carsten Reckord as his replacement. The project lead who
nominated Carsten was not actually a committer themselves, so their vote
doesn't technically count.
Only one of the
three actual committers voted. The other two committers are Carsten
himself an another formally very active member of our community that is
no longer participating in the project. I have no confidence that this
individual will show up to vote, meaning that a proper election just
can't happen.
I believe that we can reasonably
consider the nomination itself as a +1, and since the EDP makes no
requirement that you can't vote for yourself, I believe that it is
reasonable to consider the nominee themselves as an implied +1, giving
us a grand total of three +1s.
Carsten is
the only active committer on the project, so his appointment makes good
sense. Independent of the actual vote, the project is currently
dysfunctional with no leader or ability to run a proper election and so
we (the Technology PMC) have a responsibility to recommend that the
EMO(ED) appoint a new Project Lead.
So this the
long way of saying, should we approve this election and recommend
appointment of Carsten to the role of Project Lead?
Assuming
yes, I'll ask Carsten to make his first act to be to clean up the
committer list.
Wayne
--
Wayne Beaton
Director of Open Source Projects
The
Eclipse Foundation
