CFV: New OpenJDK Committer: Martin Balao (original) (raw)

Volker Simonis volker.simonis at gmail.com
Fri Jun 29 09:29:49 UTC 2018

On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 9:32 PM, <mark.reinhold at oracle.com> wrote:

2018/6/28 5:30:59 -0700, Mario Torre <neugens.limasoftware at gmail.com>:

I see your point, but I think this needs to be taken as a general guidance and decided on a case by case basis, as it has been discussed over and over. We should be looking instead at the quality of the current contributions and what they mean to the general development of the project rather than counting numbers. ... I agree. As one of the original authors of the guidance on the general Projects page [1], I can affirm that the intent from the start was only to offer guidance, not hard-and-fast rules. The thresholds of eight for a new Committer and 32 for a new Reviewer are just advice, not hard-and-fast rules. That’s why these numbers are qualified as “a rough guide,” and why they appear on the informal Projects page rather than in the formal Bylaws. When I evaluate a potential new Committer or Reviewer I look at their entire track record, not just their changeset count, including any earlier work outside of the OpenJDK Community. If a very experienced and trustworthy developer shows up and makes five contributions then at that point I don’t think it’s premature to nominate them to Committer status. Let’s leave some room for judgement here.

If that's the general opinion, I'd strongly support Jesper's proposal to update the Projects page accordingly.

Regards, Volker

- Mark

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