Jay, Erwin, et al,
How committers are brought on board is specified in your top-level
project charter. You may think that simplifying committer
selection was a goal, but you have not year accomplished it. The
existing Science TLP charter actually just uses the standard
Eclipse template....just like Technology.
Here is the trail of breadcrumbs:
- The opening paragraph of the Science
TLP charter says: "This charter was developed in
accordance with the Eclipse
Development Process and outlines the mission, scope,
organization, and development process for the Science Project.
This document extends the Eclipse
Standard Top-Level Charter v1.2, and includes the
required content and overrides which follow. "
- The Eclipse Standard Top-Level Charter then says in part:
"Committers
Contributors who give frequent and valuable contributions to a
Project can have their status promoted to that of a
"Committer" for that Project respectively. See 4.7
Committers and Contributors of the Eclipse Development
Process for the process and responsibilities that entails."
- That section of the EDP then states in part:
"Becoming a committer is a privilege that is earned by
contributing and showing discipline and good judgment. It is a
responsibility that should be neither given nor taken lightly,
nor is it a right based on employment by an Eclipse member
company or any company employing existing committers." It then
goes on to describe the standard nomination and election
process.
It would be unprecedented, but it is definitely an option for
the Science community to specify a new and different process for
how committers are onboarded. However, you have actually not
done that to this point.
All that said, I would like to say for the record that
meritocracy is a principle that has served Eclipse and other
open source communities well for many years. Becoming an Eclipse
committer truly is a privilege, and it also comes with
significant responsibilities. I would suggest that you come up
with a solution that does not throw out the baby with the bath
water.
HTH
On 2016-12-20 8:07 AM, Jay Jay Billings wrote: