CFV: New OpenJDK Members Group Member: Alex Kashchenko

[Dalibor Topic]

On 28.05.2020 10:10, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> 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

Thank you for mentioning that, Andrew.

The JDK Updates vote appears a bit too premature, as well, considering 
that Alex has made two contributions to that Project, rather than the 
usual eight.

For someone being proposed to become an OpenJDK Member, the rough guide 
is for them to be a Reviewer on a Project, which in turn as a rough 
guide means at least 32 changes having been contributed to a Project 
prior to the call for vote to become a Reviewer.

I think it's understandable that many people might see that the 
difference between 2 (or 1, or 8) and 32 stretches a bit too far even 
under most benevolent interpretations of rough guide constraints for 
this vote to be held successfully.

So I would suggest withdrawing this vote at this time.

> 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.

Author status is not required prior to becoming a Committer, but it's 
also worth pointing out that Project Leads do not just go around 
bestowing Author status on unwary Contributors without that actually 
being requested by the Contributor. That wouldn't make much sense.

So for JDK Updates, I'd also additionally suggest withdrawing the 
Committer vote at this time, and having Alex simply request Author Role 
from its Project Lead, as a means of recording his current Role with 
that Project in the Census.

As the contributions continue to grow, so would the role with subsequent 
Committer etc. votes.

cheers,
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