Re: [iot-pmc] Committer Election for Jeroen Koekkoek on Eclipse Cyclone

[Erik Boasson <eb@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear PMC members,

The committer election for Jeroen Koekkoek on Eclipse Cyclone DDS has timed out. Sadly, this should not come as a great surprise, because the general lack of participation in the project by the other committers and the project leads has been quite conspicuous. This is not a new problem and was briefly discussed last September in an earlier election, though no action was taken then.

Especially now, with Cyclone DDS seeing an uptake in users and people evaluating it as a viable middleware for their systems, I think it is a major problem that the election of one who really cares about the project and would be a great help fails because of a lack of responsiveness of people who, based on their track records, should not have a formal position in the project in the first place.

Would it be possible for the PMC to review the situation and see if there is a way to make Jeroen a committer despite the election having timed out?

Best regards,
Erik Boasson

> On 5 Jul 2019, at 12:28, emo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> A committer election for Jeroen Koekkoek on project Eclipse Cyclone DDS
> (iot.cyclonedds) was started by Erik Boasson with this criteria:
> 
> Jeroen has made many valuable contributions. He authored or completely
> rebuilt major components, including: the platform abstraction and the
> structure of it; support for FreeRTOS, thereby also paving the way for other
> embedded systems; the initial stages of the new preprocessor being built; and
> the build and test system. The relatively small number of commits belies the
> size of his contribution. The nature of some of his contributions is such
> that they ended up as very few massive commits touching almost all of the
> code base. E.g., introducing a new and better platform abstraction affects
> everything and is a massive amount of work, but the result is really only a
> handful of commits because the changes are interdependent. Good examples of
> his contributions are
> https://github.com/eclipse-cyclonedds/cyclonedds/pull/124 and
> https://github.com/eclipse-cyclonedds/cyclonedds/pull/166.
> 
> He has also furthermore been active in reviewing pull requests and his review
> comments are highly appreciated and relied upon by me, e.g.:
> https://github.com/eclipse-cyclonedds/cyclonedds/pull/209.
> 
> Perhaps it is good to point out that this is the second time Jeroen is
> nominated. The first time, about a year ago, the PMC rightly raised two
> issues. The first, that of the lack of a solid track record. I believe that
> his current track record clearly shows he cares about the quality and
> openness of the project and that he is an important contributor to the
> project.
> 
> The second issue was one of the project structure: why is another committer
> needed if there are already 3 project leads and 4 committers? The issue then,
> as now, is that although there are many on paper, I am the only one of them
> who actually contributes to the project — and, with a few very minor
> exceptions, has contributed in the past. So the abundance of people in the
> project should not be held against Jeroen. Indeed, I am keen to have a second
> committer on my side, one who moreover contributes a lot in areas that are
> not my own specialty.
> 
> Eclipse Cyclone DDS project committers can click the election link below to
> vote.
> 
> Election:
> https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/iot.cyclonedds/elections/election-jeroen-koekkoek-committer-eclipse-cyclone-dds-0
> 
> Project: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/iot.cyclonedds
> 
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