Re: [ecd-pmc] Issue managers on Eclipse projects

[Wayne Beaton <wayne.beaton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My first thought is: what is the relationship between the individual and the team?

Are they somebody who is trusted by the vendor neutral project team? If so, how did they earn that trust?

That we have no means for some random individual to be appointed as the person who manages the issues for a vendor neutral open and transparent meritocracy-based open source project is actually a feature of the process, not a bug.

Wayne

On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:49 AM Gorkem Ercan <gorkem.ercan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Wayne,

Recently we had a case on one of the projects under ECD umbrella about a committer election where the project wanted to have a committer for the purpose of managing the issues. 

I think this need comes from the fact that GitHub issues can not be managed by non-contributors. We have approved this committer election because we can not provide a solution

today but we do recognize such requests do not fall under the definition of committership completely.

Going forward, is there anything on the horizon that will help with the situation? Some projects use GH bots to listen for slash commands to manage the issues. Is this something that

may work with Eclipse projects in general.

Thanks,

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Gorkem

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Wayne Beaton

Director of Open Source Projects | Eclipse Foundation, Inc.

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