Kenn, (all)
The
“inactive” status isn’t entirely accurate
for projects/components that are new (i.e. it’s possible that
committers
haven’t committed anything yet because the project /component was only
recently provisioned). It seems that Dash has the information to make
this
distinction (based on the shaded cells that appear in the active
committers
report); could the new portal box be modified to reflect this
distinction?
Could you point me to an example project so that I can understand what
you're suggesting? I agree that the source code commits activity
information is only an indication, a hint, at the activity or
inactivity of a committer - as project lead, you know much more about
the project than any automated tool could.
I'm happy to improve the tool, but I'm not exactly clear on what you
are asking for here. Maybe you want it to show green if the person
hasn't had their account long enough? That's a good idea (and now bug
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=227352).
Another
observation is that the election participation
information isn’t as useful for projects with components since not
every
committer is eligible to vote in every election (mind you, this will be
addressed
if/when the proposed changes to the development process are approved;
when do
you expect that might happen, by the way?).
Again, you are correct and you are the final arbitrator of committer
activity. The current Foundation database (as you point out), does not
have enough information to determine the committer elections.
Mike has scheduled a Board vote on the new development process wording
at the June 19th Board meeting.
- Bjorn
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