| [4diac-dev] Antw: Re: Standardize process of electing/retiring committers |
Dear 4diac community, I would like to resurrect this discussion because more and more people contribute to Eclipse 4diac, but we did not nominate any committers in the past years. I do like your past suggestions regarding a personal meeting to discuss the implications for both electing and retiring a committer. In addition to the significant contribution, I think that also the expected future contributions should play an important role. For instance, we have had contributors who submitted a large amount of code as part of a university project or internship. However, they do not become long-time contributors, rather the contributions are limited to a period of max. 1 year. To summarize and answer my own questions from long ago with some statements to hopefully initiate a discussion....: --> Which criteria should a contributor fulfil before we initiate a committer election?
Programmer: I think that contributions should also be valid if they are not code-related. This is probably anyway not a common case (e.g., very extensive documentation rewriting without code contributions). --> Which criteria should a contributor fulfil before we ask a committer to retire?
Based on these criteria, we would probably need to nominate quite a few people as committers. I am looking forward to discussions on the presented examples! Please feel free to add new criteria if you can come up with any. Kind regards, Bianca -- --
DI Bianca Wiesmayr, BSc University Assistant LIT Cyber-Physical Systems Lab JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITÄT LINZ Altenberger Straße 69 LIT Open Innovation Center (EG) 4040 Linz, Österreich T +43 732 2468 9485 bianca.wiesmayr@xxxxxx jku.at/lit/cps-lab & Hi Bianca, & & thanks a lot for starting this discussion. Especially as project lead I & would be happy if we can come up with some numbers and more detailed rules. & & I think the numbers should somehow reflect that the contributor did a & significant contribution, as stated in the Eclipse project handbook. Also I & think the & committer who wants to nominate a contributor should have a personal meeting & upfront of a nomination. This allows to discuss the implications of the & committer & nomination as well as the willingness of the nominee. & & For me the retiring process is more critical and hard. I think the numbers & can only serve as guideline and in all cases a personal meeting with the & inaktive & committer should be done. This could only be with the project lead but I'm & also happy if other committers join that session. & & As you started the discussion do you have already some numbers and or & process in mind? & & Cheers, & Alois & & & & & On Tue, 2021-03-09 at 21:31 +0100, Bianca Wiesmayr wrote: &> Hi all, &> &> an increasingly diverse community uses and develops Eclipse 4diac. We &> welcome all kinds of contributions - from bug reports to submitted code. &> Currently, there are seven committers, see &> https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/iot.4diac/who &> As the number of code submissions is rising, especially for 4diac IDE, &> also new committers will certainly be elected in the future. What does a &> committer do? As a committer, you have write access to the git &> repository. 4diac contributions are typically uploaded to the Gerrit &> code review. Here, the acceptance of the code by a committer is required &> before the code can be merged into the repository. Furthermore, only &> committers can elect other committers on the project. &> &> In order to create a fair and inclusive environment for (potential) &> contributors, I suggest to discuss formal criteria for selecting &> committers. Of course, these criteria would only complement the election &> procedure from the Eclipse foundation and not result in any automatism. &> Information on becoming a committer can be found on the webpage, e.g. &> https://www.eclipse.org/membership/become_a_member/committer.php &> &> --> Which criteria should a contributer fulfil before we initiate a &> committer election? &> --> How long should the person have been contributing? &> --> Which minimum requirements should the contributions fulfil? &> --> Should we consider whether we expect the person to provide &> contributions also in the future? &> --> Which other criteria can you come up with? &> &> Of course, during our lives many things change: we may stop &> contributing due to a lack of free time, due to shifted interests or &> simply because of our career path. I'd therefore also suggest to &> initiate a default procedure for retiring committers after a certain &> period of time. &> &> --> A certain period of inactivity is certainly normal. After which &> period of time should we retire committers? &> --> Should an inactivity involve only times without contributions, or &> does also a low number of contributions count as inactivity? &> --> Should we consider whether we expect contributions from this &> committer in the future? &> --> Which other criteria can you come up with? &> &> While formal voting rights for committer elections are given only to &> other committers, I hope to open a broader discussion on this process. I &> therefore strongly encourage everyone on the mailing list to share their &> opinions and ideas. &> &> Looking forward to your answers, &> &> Bianca &> &> -- & & & _______________________________________________ & 4diac-dev mailing list & 4diac-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx & To unsubscribe from this list, visit & https://www.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/4diac-dev |