How to commit ? ( was Re: CFV: New hsx Committer: Volker Simonis)

[John Coomes]

Volker Simonis (volker.simonis at gmail.com) wrote:
> Sadly, that's true. But at least it is a first (simple) step which
> may help to solve the "Chicken or the egg" problem of not not
> having external committers because they can not commit anyway
> on the one side and not providing the infrastructure for external
> committs because there aren$,1ry(Bt any external committers :)

I agree; there's no point in waiting.  We don't have an open bug
database either (yet), but still want bug fixes and enhancements from
outside Oracle.

-John

> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:06 AM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
> > I've already voted for Volker to become a Committer. But without external
> > access to JPRT he can't actually commit anything. :(
> >
> > David
> >
> > On 7/02/2013 4:09 AM, John Coomes wrote:
> >>
> >> I hereby nominate Volker Simonis to hsx Committer.
> >>
> >> Volker is an engineer at SAP directly involved in developing and
> >> porting HotSpot to the many platforms that they support and is also
> >> the Project Lead of the OpenJDK ppc-aix-port Project [0].  He has
> >> contributed 10 HotSpot changesets [1].
> >>
> >> Votes are due by 5:00 PM Wednesday, February 20, 2013 UTC [2].
> >>
> >> Only current hsx Committers [3] are eligible to vote on this
> >> nomination.  Votes must be cast in the open by replying to to this
> >> mailing list.
> >>
> >> For Lazy Consensus voting instructions, see [4].
> >>
> >> John Coomes, hsx Project Lead
> >>
> >> [0] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/ppc-aix-port/
> >> [1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/hsx/hotspot-main/hotspot/log?rev=simonis
> >> [2]
> >> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=CFV%3A+New+hsx+Committer%3A+Volker+Simonis&iso=20130220T17
> >> [3] http://openjdk.java.net/census/#hsx
> >> [4] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#committer-vote