CFV: New OpenJDK Committer: Martin Balao

[Volker Simonis]

Hi Mario,

as I wrote before - if I'm the only one who has misinterpreted the
rules I apologize and won't complain any more.

Regards,
Volker


On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 2:30 PM, Mario Torre
<neugens.limasoftware at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Volker,
>
> I see your point, but I think this needs to be taken as a general
> guidance and decided on a case by case basis, as it has been discussed
> over and over. We should be looking instead at the quality of the
> current contributions and what they mean to the general development of
> the project rather than counting numbers. Or we can keep pushing
> patches for Martin if you prefer, he's going to hit the 8 mark in 3
> patches, then we can propose the nomination gain and the process will
> be happy for the sake of being a process... We all agree here that
> Martin is not only qualified, but he is a contributor that is doing
> significant work in the area of security and cryptography for OpenJDK,
> don't we want that?
>
> Then again, if you prefer we can wait a few months and see what
> happens... And no, I'm not saying this because he's a colleague at Red
> Hat, a similar issue was raised a few months ago for an Oracle
> developer, similar in all respect, including concerns, but then common
> sense prevailed.
>
> This entrance barrier is a necessary training, but if someone shows
> commitment and value in the work they do it doesn't have to be
> strictly at the eight contribution mark. It can be five or ten too.
> Generally you want to respect an higher number of contributions when
> you are uncertain of the quality and steadiness of the developer, but
> doesn't make a lot of sense in this case for me.
>
> Cheers,
> Mario
>
> Il giorno gio 28 giu 2018 alle ore 08:43 Volker Simonis
> <volker.simonis at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>>
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Volker
>>
>> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#project-committer
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 5:05 PM, Andrew Hughes <gnu.andrew at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > I hereby nominate Martin Balao (mbalao) to OpenJDK Committer.
>> >
>> > Martin has already produced a number of valuable contributions to
>> > OpenJDK [0], particularly in the security area, and has more pending review.
>> > In an area that seems low on OpenJDK developers, I think we should
>> > do our best to support such work.
>> >
>> > Votes are due by 17h00 UTC on the 11th of July, 2018.
>> >
>> > Only current OpenJDK Committers [1] are eligible to vote on this nomination.
>> >
>> > Votes must be cast in the open by replying to this mailing list.
>> >
>> > For Lazy Consensus voting instructions, see [2].
>> >
>> > [0] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk/log?revcount=200&rev=(author(mbalao)+or+desc(%22mbalao%40redhat.com%22))+and+not+merge()
>> > [1] http://openjdk.java.net/census#jdk
>> > [2] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#committer-vote
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