Hi Bjorn,
It is funny you sent this email as I’ve
been thinking about the very same thing. We want being a Higgins committer to
really mean something. So I heartily agree with un-committerizing #2 and #3 on
your list (dbakuntsev, pweitz). Next time we’ll suggest it ourselves.
But Andy Dale (adale) has recently become
active again. He worked on a design for a way to implement part of HBX (part of
Higgins) and he wrote up his design and presented it during our all-day Higgins
teleconf call 10 days ago. So he is ramping back up. (I checked his design work
in for him, because he didn’t have his password handy. Otherwise there
would have been a commit from him 10 days ago). I’ll remind him to commit
the next update under his own account.
Cheers,
-Paul
From: Bjorn Freeman-Benson
[mailto:bjorn.freeman-benson@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006
9:07 PM
To: paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx;
mary@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: technology-pmc
Subject: Cleaning out inactive
committers
Paul, Mary,
As part of the fall house cleaning, I noticed that three of the committers on
the Higgins project appear to be inactive:
http://dash.eclipse.org/dash/commits/web-app/active-committers.cgi?project=technology.higgins
adale
dbakuntsev
pweitz
Note that being an inactive Committer does not mean that the people are
inactive on the project but it does mean that the person has not checked any
code or web pages into CVS in over nine months.
The Technology Charter requires that Committers stay active in the project:
http://www.eclipse.org/technology/technology-charter.html
"A Committer that ... does not participate actively, or has been inactive
for an extended period may have his or her commit status removed by the
PMC."
We ask that either:
- You explain why these people should continue to
be committers in spite of appearing inactive, or
- You tell us to "un-committerize" them.
Committers that are removed can, of course, be reinstated when they resume
their active work on the project.
Thank you.
