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

[Tim Sutton]

Hi


I agree with the proposal. PSC I have made a loomio vote for granting Mathieu Git access - please vote there:

https://www.loomio.org/d/NeIQKYdt

Regards

Tim

> On 11 Nov 2016, at 9:46 AM, Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I agree with Nyall - Mathieu has been doing great work to improve the overall UX of the application.
> 
> This stuff can be overlooked when developing a feature so this kind of work is very important for the life and professionalism
> of the application.
> 
> - Nathan
> 
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 8:18 AM, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com <mailto: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 <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/2088>
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/2766 <https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/2766>
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/2799 <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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Tim Sutton
QGIS Project Steering Committee Chair
tim at qgis.org




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