Draft JDK 7 Updates Project Role Nomination Process

[Dalibor Topic]

On 12/14/11 7:24 PM, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
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> On Dec 14, 2011, at 9:40 AM, Dalibor Topic wrote:
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>>> Q. Specifically, what is the definition of "a significant contribution" (or "significant changeset") to this project?
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>> I wouldn't consider tags and Mercurial generated merge changesets as significant contributions to this Project.
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> Effectively that rules out Release Engineering and Integrators from ever being "significant".

I'll throw an IRSException here.

Note the deliberate use of 'should' rather then must in §2R0. Note that any Committer on this Project may 
nominate in §2R1. Note that the voting mechanism for Committers is Lazy consensus.
 
What's significant to me and what's significant to any other potential voter may not be the same thing, 
and that's OK - it's a vote, it's not an automatism. The goal here is to encourage the person making a 
nomination to make a good case for the nominee in the call for vote, for example by calling out the nominees 
8 or so significant contributions to this Project.

Also note that a vote can fail. And that's OK, too - as this Project grows, I don't expect everyone
to agree with everyone else on everything all the time.

Since we are 'assimilating' the Mac OS X Port into this Project, I want establish some expectations on 
what it takes to get certain roles, before we start calling for votes for new Committers & Reviewers,
and what the exceptions are (on demand syncing of roles with upstream projects, and integration of 
existing ones). It is in my opinion better to discuss those expectations before the votes, then during 
them.

cheers,
dalibor topic

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