[Qgis-psc] Nomination of commit rights for Mathieu Pellerin

[Matthias Kuhn]

I can only second this nomination and thank Mathieu for all the effort and goodness brought into the project so far!

+1 for expressing trust by granting commit rights.

Matthias

On November 10, 2016 11:18:05 PM GMT+01:00, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi PSC,
>
>I'd like to nominate Mathieu Pellerin ("@nirvn") for commit rights to
>the QGIS repository.
>
>As https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/graphs/contributors shows, Mathieu is
>currently our 25th most active committer, and he has a longstanding
>history with the project. He's a great asset to the project, with
>skills in UX and visual design, he has a great comprehension of the
>needs of power QGIS users, and he's shown a thorough understanding of
>the "bigger picture" when it comes to designing features and fixes for
>QGIS.
>
>I've found Mathieu's work to be of a very high quality, and I am
>always confident that any changes he submits have been extensively
>tested and well considered. He's always quick to respond to
>suggestions and follow up his work with bug fixes.
>
>I would like to nominate Mathieu for two roles:
>1. maintenance of QGIS visual assets. The bulk of Mathieu's work to
>date has centered on adding polish to QGIS' user interface and
>standardising and improving our icon set. Here's an example of the
>kind of very welcome changes Mathieu has made:
>https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/2088
>https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/2766
>https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/2799
>This kind of attention to detail has really helped make recent QGIS
>releases look much more like a professional project vs an open-source
>hobby project.
>2. UI polish and bugfixes.
>
>(While Mathieu has also submitted valuable, high quality features to
>composer, processing, etc I believe these kinds of changes are best
>served through the PR process (as is common practice by core
>developers for almost all larger changes now!).)
>
>Lastly, I believe Mathieu is a perfect example of a QGIS community
>member. His initial contributions consisted of high quality bug
>reports and feature requests, and as his involvement and skills have
>improved he's progressed through to confidence in tackling tricky c++
>changes. I consider Mathieu to be a great reflection of how well the
>QGIS community can handle mentoring new contributors and developing
>their skills and how well this initial investment pays off in the long
>run.
>
>In short, I'd love to see Mathieu granted core access so that he can
>push his contributions faster and also as recognition of his years of
>quality contributions to the project!
>
>Nyall
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