[GRASS-PSC] [GRASS-dev] Comment regarding PSC election

[Michael Barton]

This sounds like a good interim step for now. It is something that the new PSC should continue to work on.

Michael
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C. Michael Barton
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Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Head, Graduate Faculty in Complex Adaptive Systems Science
Arizona State University

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> On Jul 25, 2016, at 3:05 PM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 11:33 PM, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu> wrote:
>> My perspective is that active contributors to the project should vote. How to define them is a
>> more complicated issue and one of the things that prompted the long email chain in the PCS IIRC.
> 
> Indeed....
> Additionally, it is *very* complicated to define who is a community member.
> 
> Two options yet to consider:
> 
> - the ChangeLog contains some references to code contributors without
> SVN core access, e.g.
> 
> # incomplete "grep":
> zgrep -i contributed ChangeLog.gz
>      manual: example update (contributed by Vero Andreo)
>      (contributed by Paul Kelly, trunk r68308)
>      example added (contributed by Vero Andreo) (trunk, r68187)
>      (trunk, r67581; contributed by Vero Andreo)
>      r67571, r67572 (contributed by Vero Andreo)
>      v.krige: updated to rgrass7 - sync to trunk (contributed by
>      manual: more examples (contributed by Veronica Andreo)
>      of NC example added (contributed by Carol X Garzon-Lopez)
>      semi-synthetic NC example added (contributed by Carol X
>      example added (contributed by Vero Andreo); msg enhancement
>      manual: example expanded (contributed by Vero Andreo)
>      (contributed by Aldo Clerici)
>      vector/v.to.3d/trans3.c: fix compiler warnings (contributed by
>    * r.mapcalc/r3.mapcalc: graph2() function added (contributed by
>    * v.split/segment/parallel manuals: improvements (contributed by
>    * v.split manual: new NC examples (contributed by Milena
>    * area_poly1.c function documentation improved (contributed by
>      contributed by Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail com>
>    * help page contributed by Trevor Wiens <twiens interbaun com>
>    * help page contributed by Trevor Wiens <twiens interbaun com>
>    * EPS output added (contributed by Bruno Caprile, ITC-irst)
> 
> In fact, all should have been added here:
> https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/trunk/contributors.csv
> but that file didn't get updated lately.
> 
> Suggestion: updated this file from the ChangeLog and add to the list
> of eligible voters. The next PSC may improve the process then.
> 
> my 0.02 cents,
> Markus