CFV: New OpenJDK Committer: Martin Balao

[Volker Simonis]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 10:44 AM, Andrew Dinn <adinn at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 28/06/18 07:42, Volker Simonis wrote:
>> I totally agree that we need more OpenJDK developers in the security
>> area and I'm sure Martin is a perfect fit for this role.
>>
>> But the process document [1] clearly states that a "Contributor should
>> make at least eight significant contributions to that Project before
>> being nominated". From the references you've provided I can only see
>> five changes contributed by Martin. I'd therefore like to kindly ask
>> you to withdraw this CFV and postpone it until Martin has reached at
>> least the required minimum number of contributions.
>>
>> Sorry for nit-picking, but I think we should all play by the same rules.
> Hmm, I don't believe that nit was picked quite thoroughly enough. The
> process document clearly states a little more than what is cited above:
>
>   As a rough guide, a Contributor should make at least eight significant
> contributions to that Project before being nominated.
>
> The leading phrase which you omitted is critical. This is guidance, not law.
>

Yes, you're right. But I always understood this sentence in the way
that "eight significant contributions" is an absolute minimum for
becoming a Committer.

> You yourself admit that Martin is "a perfect fit for this role". It
> seems to me a foolish waste of project time to force him to have to
> obtain sponsors for his upcoming commits (as Andrew noted there are some
> in the pipeline) when he is clearly ready to be able to commit changes
> himself.
>

Until now we (i.e. me and my colleagues from the SAP JVM team) always
accepted this overhead in order to conform with what we thought are
the general rules of the project. But maybe that was unnecessary and
naive?

> Perhaps you might withdraw your objection?
>

I "kindly asked" and specially did not vote with "Veto". So if you and
all the other voters think this vote is OK, I won't further object.

Thank you and best regards,
Volker

> regards,
>
>
> Andrew Dinn
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