Draft JDK 7 Updates Project Role Nomination Process

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 03:32 Wed 14 Dec     , Dalibor Topic wrote:
> 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.
> 

This reads fine to me.  However, this page:

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7u/groundrules.html

refers to a further role of 'maintainer'.  How does this fit into
the author/committer/reviewer structure:

Maintainers
    jdk7u-osx forest: Paul Hohensee.
    jdk7u-osx forest - AWT, 2D and Swing: Artem Ananiev.
    Other forests: Edvard Wendelin and Dalibor Topic.

I'm not sure of the value of additional reviewers (like myself) on
this project if changesets require reviews by both the project lead
and technical lead anyway.

-- 
Andrew :)

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