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Bug 331226

Summary:	Committers Emeritus
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	John Arthorne <john.arthorne>
Component:	PMC	Assignee:	Project Inbox <platform-pmc-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, jeffmcaffer, Mike_Wilson, mober.at+eclipse
Version:	3.7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description John Arthorne

2010-11-26 12:10:13 EST

As part of our recent reorg, several long-time committers were removed. Dani suggested that we nominate some key contributors from the early days as committers emeritus:

http://www.eclipse.org/projects/committers-emeritus.php

It looks like we've never done this before, as Wassim is the only name from the Eclipse project that shows up there today. Here is an initial suggested list of people to nominate:

Martin Aeschlimann
Dirk Baeumer
Jim Des Rivieres
Erich Gamma
Dejan Glozic
Kevin Haaland
Jean-Michel Lemieux
Kai-Uwe Maetzel
Kevin McGuire
Darin Swanson
Michael Valenta
Andre Weinand
John Wiegand

Note you can view a list of "alumni" from here:

http://www.eclipse.org/projects/committers-alumni.php?sort=project

Comment 1 Dani Megert

2010-11-29 04:18:18 EST

+1 for the list in comment 0.

Comment 2 John Arthorne

2010-12-08 13:14:06 EST

McQ/Jeff/Martin: please comment if you want to change anything.

Comment 3 Jeff McAffer

2010-12-08 20:50:32 EST

looks good

Comment 4 Martin Oberhuber

2010-12-09 04:12:18 EST

Most of these people's involvement pre-dates my life at Eclipse, so I can't really comment ... but I trust John's good judgement --> vote 0.

On the Emeritus page http://www.eclipse.org/projects/committers-emeritus.php I noticed a couple names who apparently left some project X but are still active committers on some project Y eg Andrew Niefer, Mik Kersten. Reading the text on the page, this doesn't seem the intention of the page as it seems to apply to "Eclipse as a whole". 

Perhaps people who've been nominated for Emeritus status on any project X should be filtered from the list while they are still active committers on any other project.

Comment 5 John Arthorne

2010-12-17 10:37:46 EST

I sent this request on to the EMO, and it has been completed. The names now appear among the Emeratii.