[Qgis-psc] Nomination of Vincent Cloarec (vcloarec) for commit rights

Thu May 14 03:17:45 PDT 2020

Hi all,
Thanks for added me to the QGIS Community. I am very happy to get involved
in this project and proud to have been added in! (Also to be a subject of
discussion and debate :-) )

Vincent

Le jeu. 14 mai 2020 à 05:40, Saber Razmjooei <
saber.razmjooei at lutraconsulting.co.uk> a écrit :

> Hi Marco,
>
> >> Maybe we should fix a rule where the PSC has not much to say in this
> and to successfully become a new core committer a contributor needs to be
> vouched for by at least 5 (?) independent (not coworkers) core
> committers....
>
> With QGIS codebase getting more and more diverse and complex how does that
> work in practice? For example in Vincent's case, he has been primarily
> working on 3D and mesh in QGIS. Those who are probably most qualified to
> comment on his skills are his co-workers (Peter and Martin).
>
> Regards
> Saber
>
>
>
> On Thu, 14 May 2020 at 10:21, Marco Bernasocchi <marco at qgis.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> sorry this went under the radar.
>>
>> I added him to the triage team, while a decision is taken for core
>> committer.
>>
>> A very important point to me is that each time there is a new nomination
>> for a core developer, I'm feel, that it is not clear how such decision
>> should be taken by us in the PSC.
>>
>> I don't want to cast my vote lightly, so I usually go and inform myself,
>> talk to other core committers, look ad communication in the PRs, mailing
>> lists and so on, but I still feel that my opinion is not the best to judge
>> such a decision.
>> I'd like to have a clear and transparent way to have this yes or no be
>> taken. Not all of us follow the details of the code developments, and even
>> less of us are in the position to adequately evaluate code quality. I think
>> we should be fair in this decision and it might be that the PSC is not the
>> correct group of people to evaluate technical capabilities of committers.
>>
>> Maybe we should fix a rule where the PSC has not much to say in this and
>> to successfully become a new core committer a contributor needs to be
>> vouched for by at least 5 (?) independent (not coworkers) core committers
>> and no major concerns are risen? The PSC would then just acknowledges what
>> the core developer community decided and if all is good, awards the
>> core-committer status to the nominee.
>>
>> I want to be very welcoming and encourage new committers to aspire to
>> become core committer, but I'd still like the core committer "title" to be
>> given out only when the developer community thinks it is really deserved.
>>
>> I'd like to get some feedback so we can discuss this in the next PSC
>> meeting.
>>
>> Cheers Marco
>> On 14.05.20 10:01, Peter Petrik wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am wondering how was this motion settled? I tried to assign Vincent the
>> issue in the QGIS issue tracker and I am unable to do so. Would it be
>> possible to give him at least some rights to the qgis repository so we can
>> assign tickets to him and he can add some labels to his PRs?
>>
>> Thanks a lot!
>> Peter
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 5:29 PM Saber Razmjooei <
>> saber.razmjooei at lutraconsulting.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Nyall for nominating Vincent. Indeed, he has done some very nice
>>> work on mesh and 3d.
>>>
>>> @PSC does this need to be voted?
>>>
>>> Kind regards
>>> Saber
>>>
>>> On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 06:35, Peter Petrik <
>>> peter.petrik at lutraconsulting.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Nyall and PSC,
>>>>
>>>> I work with Vincent on mesh layer and MDAL tasks closely and he is
>>>> indeed a very capable C++ developer and generally very nice person. Having
>>>> him on the core team would be great.
>>>>
>>>> Peter
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 7:17 AM Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> +1, of course.
>>>>> Thanks Nyall for raising this.
>>>>> Cheers.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 18 March 2020 07:14:37 CET, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi PSC,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd like to formally nominate Vincent Cloarec
>>>>>> (https://github.com/vcloarec) for consideration for commit rights to
>>>>>> the main QGIS repo.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Vincent has been doing **fantastic** work in two very specialised (yet
>>>>>> increasingly important) parts of QGIS: mesh layer handling and the 3d
>>>>>> rendering engine. His work is consistently excellent and upholds all
>>>>>> the code quality standards and coding guidelines set in place by the
>>>>>> project. We can only benefit from having him as a core member of the
>>>>>> QGIS coding team!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nyall
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