Draft JDK 7 Updates Project Role Nomination Process

[Dalibor Topic]

Hi everyone,

it's process time again. Now that we're past a significant milestone for the project,
with the 7u2 release out of the door (wooohoo!), and with the Mac OS X port coming into 
this Project, it's time to come up with a process that describes how Project Roles
(Author, Committer, Reviewer) are acquired in the Project in accordance with the 
Bylaws.

Here's a draft that I'll leave open for discussion until Friday, December 16th. Once 
it's finalized, I'll start the votes for new Committers and Reviewers. I'll also post
a list of new Authors.

Thus draft covers the Author role in significant detail, as that's the first step to take
for new Contributors, goes into some detail of how to keep Committer and Reviewer roles
with jdk8 and hsx in sync 'on demand', which have an upstream role for most of the changes 
coming into this Project, and finally deals with how roles get propagated from integrated
Projects, like the Mac OS X port, to allow their developers to continue to work in the
same roles as before the integration.

JDK 7 Update Project Role Nomination Process
============================================

§1 - Author Role
----------------

Rule 0. Any Contributor may request the Author role in this Project by contacting the 
Project Lead. An e-mail request should be sent directly to the Project Lead and the 
Technical Lead. It should contain a short description of the Contributor's qualifications, 
including past contributions to this Project. For more information see [0].

Rule 1. Project Lead is responsible for verifying that the requesting Contributor satisfies 
the requirements of the Contributor role. [1] If the requirements are not satisfied, the 
request is denied.

Rule 2. Project Lead is responsible for contacting the OpenJDK registrar with the request 
to add the Contributor as an Author to the JDK 7 Updates Project. A template is provided 
below:

  To: <registrar>
  Subject: Author Role for <full name> in JDK 7 Updates Project

  I hereby grant <full name> the Author role in the JDK 7 Updates Project.

Rule 3. Once the Author role is reflected in the JDK 7 Updates Project in the OpenJDK Census [2],
the Project Lead has the responsibility to inform the Contributor of their new role in this
Project. A template is provided below:

  To: <Contributor>
  Subject: Author role in JDK 7 Updates Project

  The OpenJDK Census at http://openjdk.java.net/census#jdk7u has been updated to reflect your 
  Author role in the JDK 7 Updates Project. 

Rule 4. Project Lead has the responsibility to inform jdk7u-dev mailing list of new Authors in
the JDK 7 Updates Project.

§2 - Committer Role
-------------------

Rule 0. A Contributor should make at least eight significant contributions to this Project 
before being nominated. 

Rule 1. Any Committer on this Project may nominate a Contributor to be a new Committer on 
this Project. For more information see [3].

Rule 2. Any Contributor who satisfies the requirement in Rule 0 and has the Committer role
in the JDK 8 Project or the HotSpot Express Project, may request the nomination for the 
Committer role in JDK 7 Updates Project by contacting the Project Lead. An e-mail request 
should be sent directly to the Project Lead and the Technical Lead.

§3 - Reviewer Role
------------------

Rule 0. A Committer should author and push at least 32 significant changesets into this
Project's forests before being nominated to be a Reviewer. 

Rule 1. Any JDK 7 Update Project Reviewer may nominate any of the Project's Committers 
to be a Project Reviewer of this Project. For more information see [4].

Rule 2. The Project Lead is automatically considered to be a Reviewer, and remains a Reviewer 
after leaving the Project Lead role.

Rule 3. Any Committer who satisfies the requirement in Rule 0 and has the Reviewer role
in the JDK 8 Project or the HotSpot Express Project, may request the nomination for the 
Reviewer role in JDK 7 Updates Project by contacting the Project Lead. An e-mail request 
should be sent directly to the Project Lead and the Technical Lead.

§4 - Integration of other Projects
----------------------------------

Rule 0. When another OpenJDK Project is integrated into JDK 7 Updates Project, the
Project Lead should grant the Author role to the Contributors of the integrated Project 
who don't already have an Author role in this Project.

Rule 1. Project Lead should nominate Committers of the integrated Project as Committers,
unless the nominees already have that role in this Project.

Rule 2. Project Lead should nominate Reviewers of the integrated Project as Reviewers,
unless the nominees already have that role in this Project.

Rule 3. Project Lead should nominate Project Lead of the integrated Project as Reviewer,
unless the nominee already has that role in this Project.
 
[0] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#project-author
[1] http://openjdk.java.net/bylaws#contributor
[2] http://openjdk.java.net/census
[3] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#project-committer


cheers,
dalibor topic
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