[Swift-devel] [PROPOSAL] Review and adjust Committers list

[Michael Wilde]

Subject was: Re: [Swift-devel] committers

As we move towards meeting the infrastructure and process guidelines of 
the dev.globus incubator, I propose that we revise the committers list.

I propose, based on the people actively involved in the project, that 
the committers list be changed by vote of the current committers to be:

Ben Clifford
Ian Foster
Mihael Hategan
Sarah Kenny
Michael Wilde

Of this list, all but Sarah are current committers. Sarah has recently 
joined the group, and her job calls for her to become an active committer.

I propose that Nika Nefedova and Beth Cerny be taken off the committers 
list. Neither Nika nor Beth currently work on the project. As a web 
content developer, Beth may likely contribute in the future, but does 
not I feel need to (nor I suspect want to) engage as a contributor.

I propose that Ioan Raicu, Tibi Stef-Praun, and Yong Zhao become 
contributors rather than committers. Their past contributions have been 
immensely valuable, but I feel that their current role is more 
appropriately one of contributor. Ioan, Tibi, Yong, if you feel 
differently, and plan to be an active committer, I'm happy to amend this 
proposal to reflect your wish.

But I am seeking to keep the committers list, which has voting rights in 
the project, down to the people that are deeply involved.

This will be our first formal vote under the dev.globus guidelines:
http://dev.globus.org/wiki/Guidelines#Decision_Making

My understanding is that we do this:

1) readers reply to this email with comments.
2) I as proposer calls a vote with another email
3) you respond to the vote email with:

The way you do this is - I think - to reply to the voting email with one 
of these strings and in some cases additional text as indicated:

+1 The action should be performed.
+0 Abstain - I support the action.
-0 Abstain, I don't support the action but I can't help with an alternative
-1 The action should not be performed and I am offering an explanation 
or alternative.

Ive paraphrased these from the original to reflect what I believe is 
appropriate for a committers-list change rather than a technical change.

My read of the guidelines is that we have 5 days to conduct vote.
I'll send the [VOTE] message out in a few hours, to allow initial 
comments on this proposal.

- Mike

On 6/4/08 4:57 PM, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> All committers have been added to the swift-commit mailing list.
> 
> If some are wondering what the list admin password is, well, you either
> know it already or you don't.
> 
> On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 16:36 -0500, Mihael Hategan wrote:
>> Ah, that bug I wasn't CC-ed on. Well, I know about it now.
>>
>> On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 21:20 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
>>> On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Mihael Hategan wrote:
>>>
>>>> So we need, I think, to agree on the initial list of committers for the
>>>> dev.globus side of things.
>>> The initial proposal, listed in globus bug 5300, already contains an 
>>> initial list of committers:
>>>
>>> Benjamin Clifford <benc at ci.uchicago.edu>
>>> Mihael Hategan <hategan at mcs.anl.gov>
>>> Tiberius Stef-Praun <tiberius at ci.uchicago.edu>Beth
>>> Yong Zhao <yongzh at cs.uchicago.edu>
>>> Veronika Nefedova <nefedova at mcs.anl.gov>
>>> Ian Foster <foster at mcs.anl.gov>
>>> Michael Wilde <wilde at mcs.anl.gov>
>>> Ioan Raicu <iraicu at cs.uchicago.edu>
>>> Beth Cerny Patino <bcerny at mcs.anl.gov>
>>>
>>> Any amendments to that should probably be made through the dev.globus 
>>> voting process.
>>>
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