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

[Paolo Cavallini]

Il 11 novembre 2016 04:11:23 CET, Tim Sutton <tim at qgis.org> ha scritto:
>Hi
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>I agree with the proposal. PSC I have made a loomio vote for granting
>Mathieu Git access - please vote there:
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>https://www.loomio.org/d/NeIQKYdt
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>Regards
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>Tim
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>> On 11 Nov 2016, at 9:46 AM, Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com>
>wrote:
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>> I agree with Nyall - Mathieu has been doing great work to improve the
>overall UX of the application.
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>> 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
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>> 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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Fully agreed. Thanks Mathieu, and Nyall for suggesting this.
All the best.
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