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| Summary: | Nominations for Eclipse Top Contributor Award 2009 | ||
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| Product: | Community | Reporter: | Lynn Gayowski <leftylynn> |
| Component: | EclipseCon | Assignee: | Lynn Gayowski <leftylynn> |
| Status: | CLOSED FIXED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | P3 | CC: | antoine, b.muskalla, caniszczyk, contact, Darin_Swanson, denis.roy, dsciamma, d_a_carver, eclipse-bugs, eclipse, ekuleshov, ian.skerrett, james, john.arthorne, mik.kersten, milesparker, mober.at+eclipse, nadja, nboldt, remy.suen, robert.elves, susan, tom.schindl |
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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Description
Lynn Gayowski
I'm going to nominate Dave Carver for this. While I don't really work with Dave on anything yet (which is unfortunate because Dave knows what he's talking about), I _have_ seen Dave's posts on the various communication channels of Eclipse (his own blog, newsgroups, the mailing lists, IRC, and so forth) and he is really, really active. I don't know where he finds the time for all of this because I'm pretty sure he's not doing all of these things on company time. Dave really just kind of "came out of nowhere" some time in 2007 (or early 2008?) and has contributed a tremendous amount to the Eclipse ecosystem since then. He works closely with the WTP SSE folks in his work for XSL tooling and has also helped push the VEX project from SourceForge over to Eclipse.org recently. I see a bright future for anything related to XML editing at Eclipse.org with Dave around and I hope Dave continues to stick around for many years to come. :) +1 for Dave Carver. Dave work on the XSL tooling, his way of using his blog for communication and reaching out to the community is exemplar. Dave also accepted to mentor the BPMN sub-project on top of his many duties. I would like to nominate Benjamin Cabe. Benjamin has done a lot of great contributions to PDE and other areas in Eclipse. He's extremely active on bugzilla and does a good job of bug triage across various Eclipse components. His recent contributions to PDE allowed him to join the PDE Incubator as a committer to explore PDE/EMF integrations. As a bonus, he also managed to turn me onto kiva.org, so +1 for him! (In reply to comment #3) > I would like to nominate Benjamin Cabe. +1 for contributing to Modeling, photoshop contests, and turning me on to Kiva, too. I would like to nominate Miles Parker as a top contributor. Miles may be a surprising choice because he hasn't (to my knowledge) contributed any code. However, he is an excellent example of the fact that code isn't the only way someone in the community can make a positive contribution to the project. From the perspective of the Equinox p2 team, he has contributed something far more valuable than patches: an end-user perspective that is different from that of Eclipse developers. As committers we often fall victim to focusing too much on the user community we know best: ourselves. As a result we often tailor our solutions to a very narrow conception of end-user expectations and behavior. Therefore to have different end-user perspectives that are well thought out and articulated is absolutely vital to our success. Having a contributor like Miles providing constructive feedback early and often during development has been a great asset to the team. It is easy to provide criticism, but when the critique is polite, constructive, and thoroughly detailed, it is a refreshing change from the all too common slings and arrows from irate users. From a quick search, there are about a 100 bugs Miles has created or commented on in the recent past, mostly in the areas of the new SWT Cocoa port, and Equinox p2. Particularly good examples of his contributions are comments in bug 250316, bug 255984, bug 239301, and bug 236740. I'm sure I have missed many others. (In reply to comment #5) > I would like to nominate Miles Parker as a top contributor. +1 for Miles, he has added valuable insight as we evolve the p2 UI in 3.5 (and before that as well, but I think I never noticed him in particular under the flood of 3.4 bugs)... I'm surprised that nobody has nominated Ed Merks yet. Surely his tireless work on EMF and blogging and committee participation and answering of newsgroup questions is worthy of consideration. Re comment #7: I think the intent of this award is to recognize non-committers. Top committers have their own separate reward, since it would be unfair to compare highly active Eclipse committers to more casual contributors. (In reply to comment #8) > Re comment #7: I think the intent of this award is to recognize non-committers. > Top committers have their own separate reward, since it would be unfair to > compare highly active Eclipse committers to more casual contributors. > You're right, John. I was confusing this award with the Top Amabassador (that's what I get for NOT reading the page Lynn linked to). Sorry. I would like to nominate Frank Becker (Frank@Frank-Becker.de) for Top Contributor. Frank has been an tireless contributor to the Mylyn project (http://eclipse.org/mylyn) for over a year, and has implemented a number of excellent features in Mylyn (some you may have seen already, others due in Mylyn 3.1): * Porting to support Bugzilla 3.2 * Custom attributes (bug 226851) * Flags support (bug 186265) * Attachment deprecation/mark obsolete (bug 152065) Those are just the highlights. To date Frank has resolved 89 bugs and has numerous patches awaiting review. In addition to contributing code, Frank is also involved with end users and integrators through discussion on both the Mylyn newsgroup and mailing lists. Last but not least, Frank has recently received a round of +1 from all committers on the Mylyn project in favor of Frank's nomination as a committer on the Mylyn project. +1 Frank Becker for Top Contributor award I would like to nominate Tom Schindl for top contributor. He has helped shaping Platform UI and Databinding and recently brought the UFacekit project over to Eclipse. But what's really been making me jump is the fundamental impact he has on the future of Eclipse through his contributions to the e4 project - which also led to voting him into the Eclipse Architecture Council. Few may know that he's been doing all this in his private spare time, he's even been funding EclipseCon visits privately. He's been contributing his time and energy out of passion for Open Source and Technology, that's why I'm nominating him for Top Contributor (although he is a committer). + for Frank Becker. Through countless patches Frank has provided the other Mylyn committers help in improving and evolving the Bugzilla connector. This connector is used by a large portion of bugs.eclipse.org users, and is one of the few "common good" projects within the Eclipse community that has no official support from the Eclipse Foundation. It has been encouraging for the Mylyn project to see community contributions on this connector, in the form of Frank's patches and interactions with the bugzilla.mozilla.org community. +1 for Tom Schindl. His talks at Eclipse Summit Europe this year were fantastic. I would like to nominate Eugene Kuleshov for top contributor. Eugene is highly active in the Eclipse community and has reported or commented on almost 3000 bugs in 7 years. He has done amazing work on the m2eclipse project, and an incredibly dedicated Eclipse advocate. +1 for Benjamin Cabé : for all the contests, contributions to PDE and his activity on bugzilla, newsgroups and mailing lists Voting is now open at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=_2fI5xGe4LFo_2bqpq6wQW_2f70A_3d_3d. The nominees are: Frank Becker Benjamin Cabe Dave Carver Eugene Kuleshov Miles Parker Tom Schindl Lynn, on the surveymonkey website, the link to this bug is "hhttps://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=257953" which obvisouly should be "https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=257953" Thanks, and may the best win! :) Thanks Benjamin! Got that fixed. Congratulations to winner Benjamin Cabé and finalists Dave Carver and Tom Shindl. Closing bugs for the 2009 awards. |