CFV: New OpenJDK Members Group Member: Alex Kashchenko

[Kim Barrett]

vote: veto

> On May 28, 2020, at 4:10 AM, Andrew Hughes <gnu.andrew at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On 28/05/2020 06:07, David Holmes wrote:
>> Vote: Veto
>> 
>> Sorry Andrew this seems extremely premature:
>> 
>> "An OpenJDK Member is a Contributor who has demonstrated a history of
>> significant contributions to the Community as recognized by a vote of
>> the existing OpenJDK Members."
>> 
>> Alex has only made a handful of contributions and does not even have
>> Author status in the projects you provided those contribution links for
>> (some of which are the same contribution backported).
>> 
>> David
>> -----
> 
> I've responded in full in reply to Simon's vote, but on the specific
> point raised here, votes for Alex to be made a committer are also in
> progress:
> 
> https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-updates-dev/2020-May/003173.html
> https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8u-dev/2020-May/011806.html
> 
> With regard to authorship status, I believe that's something that can
> simply be bestowed on request to the project lead. I'm not sure why that
> has not taken place earlier, but I don't believe it's a pre-requisite to
> committer status either.

https://openjdk.java.net/groups/members/
"As a rough guide, a candidate should be a Member of at least one
Group, or a Reviewer or Project Lead of at least one Project, and make
regular and significant contributions to that Group or Project for at
least one year before being nominated to be an OpenJDK Member."

Based on the information provided in the CFV, I think none of the
above criteria are met.  Hence my veto.

> Incidentally, I did notice, in browsing the census, that there are a
> number of members of the OpenJDK members group who have no authorship at
> all.

I think there are other ways to make “significant contributions” than just commits,
but the CFV didn't call out such.  So for the case at hand, perhaps there were a lot
more backports than listed?  Though it’s somewhat harder to gauge the significance
of a backport, wrangling backports certainly has value.