[automotive-pmc] Committer Election for Ingolf Gehrhardt on Eclipse Trac

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A Committer election for Ingolf Gehrhardt on project Eclipse Tractus-X
(automotive.tractusx) was started by Mathias Brunkow Moser with this
criteria:

Ingolf Gehrhardt has been an integral part of the Eclipse Tractus-X project
since 2024, when he started engaging with the community through issue
reports. His first pull request followed in July 2025, and since then his
contributions have been impactful, as he actively participates in discussions
and consistently enhances core projects through optimizations and improved
code quality.

Ingolf is a research associate at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft
(HTW) Dresden, working in an IT environment that spans everything from cloud
systems down to microcontrollers — programming, CI/CD, DevOps, and IT
infrastructure setup and management. Within the Tractus-X ecosystem, his
center of gravity is Kubernetes: Helm charts, deployment automation, and
cluster infrastructure. He represents Semiconductor-X — an ecosystem of
companies and associated partners — within the Tractus-X community, and his
particular focus is cross-dataspace interoperability: making Tractus-X
components work in an ecosystem of multiple, coexisting dataspaces.

Community Engagement & Collaboration:

Community Days & Workshops — Ingolf has attended the Tractus-X Community
Days since 2024 (HE WAS THE FIRST PERSON FROM SEMICONDUTOR-X TO ACTUALLY
DEPLOY THE UMBRELLA IN HIS LOCAL COMPUTER!). Since then he has been engaged
in our community like never before!

In the last two community days he even decided to be active, and gave two
workshops, and sat on a developer panel:
- Workshop "Traceability in Semiconductor-X and cross dataspaces" at the 5th
Tractus-X Community Days:
https://arena2036.de/reader/fifth-eclipse-tractus-x-community-days/
- Workshop "Navigating an ecosystem of multiple Dataspaces" at the 6th
Tractus-X Community Days:
https://arena2036.de/reader/sixth-eclipse-tractus-x-community-days-event/
- Developer panel discussion "A Multi-Dataspace Community: Growing together
from a common core" at the 5th Tractus-X Community Days

Matrix Chat participation — actively discusses component behaviour,
deployment issues, and chart configuration with other users in:
- #tractusx-identity-hub:matrix.eclipse.org
- #tractusx-umbrella-chart:matrix.eclipse.org
- #tractusx-edc:matrix.eclipse.org

Office Hours — attends the Office Hours to stay connected with the
community and follow up on deployment topics.

Code Contributions & Reviews:

Ingolf's technical contributions span multiple projects, demonstrating both
skill and commitment. His signature work is the integration of the Kubernetes
Gateway API (HTTPRoutes) as a modern alternative to Ingress across the
Tractus-X product charts:

tractusx-edc:
- Gateway API HTTPRoute support for the Tractus-X connector charts:
https://github.com/eclipse-tractusx/tractusx-edc/pull/3053
- Fix duplicate catalog env vars that broke helm installs of release 0.12.1:
https://github.com/eclipse-tractusx/tractusx-edc/pull/2996
- CI: run checkstyleTestFixtures in the verify workflow:
https://github.com/eclipse-tractusx/tractusx-edc/pull/3054

tractusx-identityhub:
- Gateway API HTTPRoute support for IdentityHub and IssuerService charts:
https://github.com/eclipse-tractusx/tractusx-identityhub/pull/346

ssi-dim-wallet-stub:
- Gateway capability for the wallet-stub chart:
https://github.com/eclipse-tractusx/ssi-dim-wallet-stub/pull/113
- Clarified the function of the keycloak.enabled flag in the chart
documentation:
https://github.com/eclipse-tractusx/ssi-dim-wallet-stub/pull/72

tractus-x-umbrella:
- Umbrella update integrating ssi-dim-wallet-stub 25.09:
https://github.com/eclipse-tractusx/tractus-x-umbrella/pull/338
- Fix malformed indentation of services and resources in the
identity-and-trust-bundle chart:
https://github.com/eclipse-tractusx/tractus-x-umbrella/pull/362

bpn-did-resolution-service:
- Fix the Gradle dockerize task failing due to a missing dependency on the
jar task:
https://github.com/eclipse-tractusx/bpn-did-resolution-service/pull/519
- Gateway API support for the BDRS charts:
https://github.com/eclipse-tractusx/bpn-did-resolution-service/pull/524

Beyond the Tractus-X organization, Ingolf also contributed upstream to
Eclipse IdentityHub, fixing obsolete specification links in the IdentityHub
documentation (merged): https://github.com/eclipse-edc/IdentityHub/pull/1020

Bug Reports & Improvements:

Ingolf has identified and reported key issues, leading to several
improvements:
- Duplicate catalog env vars caused helm install failures of tractusx-edc
0.12.1 — reported in
https://github.com/eclipse-tractusx/tractusx-edc/issues/2994 and subsequently
fixed by his own PR
https://github.com/eclipse-tractusx/tractusx-edc/pull/2996
- Helm install of tractusx-edc 0.12 failed with missing database relations:
https://github.com/eclipse-tractusx/tractusx-edc/issues/2671
- ./gradlew dockerize failed in bpn-did-resolution-service — reported in
https://github.com/eclipse-tractusx/bpn-did-resolution-service/issues/518 and
fixed in
https://github.com/eclipse-tractusx/bpn-did-resolution-service/pull/519
- Persist-error in ssi-dim-wallet-stub ("Identifier of entity must be
manually assigned before calling 'persist()'") sparked a discussion that led
an active developer to fix the underlying issue:
https://github.com/eclipse-tractusx/ssi-dim-wallet-stub/issues/90

TRG Compliance & Enforcement:

Ingolf has actively contributed to TRG compliance efforts, reinforcing best
practices:
- Added Copyright and SPDX-License-Identifier headers to every new chart
template of his Gateway API integration across tractusx-identityhub,
ssi-dim-wallet-stub, tractusx-edc, and bpn-did-resolution-service (see PRs
linked above), in line with the TRG legal-information requirements — for
the new files this was done at the request of project maintainers so that a
legal contact is identifiable for major changes
- Improved chart documentation for the ssi-dim-wallet-stub in accordance with
the TRG documentation guidelines:
https://github.com/eclipse-tractusx/ssi-dim-wallet-stub/pull/72
- Modernized the CI security-scan setup of ssi-dim-wallet-stub by upgrading
CodeQL and checkout GitHub Actions to non-deprecated versions:
https://github.com/eclipse-tractusx/ssi-dim-wallet-stub/pull/115

Ingolf's work has had a lasting impact on Tractus-X. As a committer, he will
continue driving advancements and supporting the community with his
Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code expertise — particularly in the
maintenance of the project's Helm charts and the development of
cross-dataspaces capabilities — which is essential for this project's
future.

He is such a motivated contributor and it is for me a honor to have him in
the community. Specially is great to know that we get one more committer from
another project rather than Catena-X.

Because of his proactive commitment, community driven spirit and constant
efforts to bring quality code contributions to Eclipse Tractus-X, it is my
privilege to nominate Ingolf Gehrhardt as a committer for Eclipse Tractus-X.


Eclipse Tractus-X project committers can click the election link below to
vote.

Election: Election for Ingolf Gehrhardt as Committer on Eclipse Tractus-X [1]

Project: Eclipse Tractus-X [2]

[1]  
https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/automotive.tractusx/elections/election-ingolf-gehrhardt-eclipse-tractus-x
[2] https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/automotive.tractusx