Draft JDK 7 Updates Project Role Nomination Process

[Dalibor Topic]

On 12/14/11 6:07 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 
> 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.

Maintainers don't necessarily do the technical review - when Edvard and I came up with the 
concept of forest maintainership delegation for jdk7u, the idea we had was to allow teams 
to work without much delay even in quickly progressing forests, by moving approvals for 
changes closer to the teams.

In this Project, approvals happen per changeset, not per person - that ensures that each 
changeset going into a jdk7u forest gets seen by another set of eyes looking for code 
adding new interfaces, for example, or that the necessary information for the changeset 
to be reviewed has been published either on the bug tracker, or in the approval mail,
in accordance with our development process.

As such, it is an orthogonal role to the Author/Committer/Reviewer roles in this Project.

cheers,
dalibor topic
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