new committer and PMC member: Gavin McDonald

[Thorsten Scherler <th...@apache.org>]

The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Forrest
has asked Gavin McDonald to become a committer and
member of the PMC, and we are pleased to announce that
he has accepted.

Gavin has been around our community for some time. He has been gradually 
immersing himself in our community, striving to understand important 
parts of Forrest, giving excellent user perspective feedback and 
thorough testing. He is becoming increasingly involved with developer 
tasks, in particular he has started to help manage JIRA, and admin task 
that is overlooked by most committers.

Furthermore, he is happy to become involved in "sticky" threads, trying 
to find a sensible compromise to any given situation.

Being a committer enables easier contribution to the
project since there is no need to go via the patch
submission process. This should enable better productivity.
Being a PMC member enables assistance with the management
and to guide the direction of the project.

A very warm welcome to Gavin.

salu2
-- 
thorsten

"Together we stand, divided we fall!" 
Hey you (Pink Floyd)

RE: new committer and PMC member: Gavin McDonald

["Gav...." <br...@brightontown.com.au>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Williams [mailto:williamstw@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 25 July 2006 7:10 PM
> To: dev@forrest.apache.org
> Subject: Re: new committer and PMC member: Gavin McDonald
> 
> On 7/25/06, Thorsten Scherler <th...@apache.org> wrote:
> > The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Forrest
> > has asked Gavin McDonald to become a committer and
> > member of the PMC, and we are pleased to announce that
> > he has accepted.
> >
> > Gavin has been around our community for some time. He has been gradually
> > immersing himself in our community, striving to understand important
> > parts of Forrest, giving excellent user perspective feedback and
> > thorough testing. He is becoming increasingly involved with developer
> > tasks, in particular he has started to help manage JIRA, and admin task
> > that is overlooked by most committers.
> >
> > Furthermore, he is happy to become involved in "sticky" threads, trying
> > to find a sensible compromise to any given situation.
> >
> > Being a committer enables easier contribution to the
> > project since there is no need to go via the patch
> > submission process. This should enable better productivity.
> > Being a PMC member enables assistance with the management
> > and to guide the direction of the project.
> >
> > A very warm welcome to Gavin.
> 
> Welcome aboard Gavin, look forward to seeing your energies put to more
> efficient use.  As before, we're all here to help if you need
> anything...
> --tim

Thanks Tim, no doubt it will be needed.

Coffee, lots of coffee, that will do for starters :)

Gav...

> 
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Re: new committer and PMC member: Gavin McDonald

[Tim Williams <wi...@gmail.com>]

On 7/25/06, Thorsten Scherler <th...@apache.org> wrote:
> The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Forrest
> has asked Gavin McDonald to become a committer and
> member of the PMC, and we are pleased to announce that
> he has accepted.
>
> Gavin has been around our community for some time. He has been gradually
> immersing himself in our community, striving to understand important
> parts of Forrest, giving excellent user perspective feedback and
> thorough testing. He is becoming increasingly involved with developer
> tasks, in particular he has started to help manage JIRA, and admin task
> that is overlooked by most committers.
>
> Furthermore, he is happy to become involved in "sticky" threads, trying
> to find a sensible compromise to any given situation.
>
> Being a committer enables easier contribution to the
> project since there is no need to go via the patch
> submission process. This should enable better productivity.
> Being a PMC member enables assistance with the management
> and to guide the direction of the project.
>
> A very warm welcome to Gavin.

Welcome aboard Gavin, look forward to seeing your energies put to more
efficient use.  As before, we're all here to help if you need
anything...
--tim

RE: new committer and PMC member: Gavin McDonald

["Gav...." <br...@brightontown.com.au>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ross Gardler [mailto:rgardler@apache.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, 25 July 2006 5:09 PM
> To: dev@forrest.apache.org
> Subject: Re: new committer and PMC member: Gavin McDonald
> 
> Thorsten Scherler wrote:
> 
> > A very warm welcome to Gavin.
> 
> Welcome Gavin,
> 
> Now you can apply some of those patches you have in our patch queue.

A good place to start as any, must check if some are not relevant any more
Or need updating in light of commits since patched were submitted, I'll
look.

> 
> Please remember that we operate a commit then review policy. This means
> that other devs will continue to monitor your work and will flag up any
> potential problems we spot.

Ok.

> 
> Sometimes this may mean reverting a commit. This is never a comment on
> your work, only a method of ensuring the quality of our commits. It is
> difficult for a single person to know all the ins-and-outs of our code
> base, therefore we have many eyes monitoring changes.
> 
> See recent commits by Thorsten and myself for examples such monitoring
> and flagging of concerns by other devs.
> 
> Please also be aware that you are now jointly responsible for reviewing
> other peoples commits and reviewing patches in Jira. Please be sure to
> speak up if you see something wrong with any of our work.

Will do, thanks Ross.

Gav...

> 
> Actually this applies to all people on this list - you can monitor svn
> commits by subscribing to our SVN commit mail list [1].
> 
> Ross
> 
> [1] http://forrest.apache.org/mail-lists.html#Lists
> 
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Re: new committer and PMC member: Gavin McDonald

[Ross Gardler <rg...@apache.org>]

Thorsten Scherler wrote:

> A very warm welcome to Gavin.

Welcome Gavin,

Now you can apply some of those patches you have in our patch queue.

Please remember that we operate a commit then review policy. This means 
that other devs will continue to monitor your work and will flag up any 
potential problems we spot.

Sometimes this may mean reverting a commit. This is never a comment on 
your work, only a method of ensuring the quality of our commits. It is 
difficult for a single person to know all the ins-and-outs of our code 
base, therefore we have many eyes monitoring changes.

See recent commits by Thorsten and myself for examples such monitoring 
and flagging of concerns by other devs.

Please also be aware that you are now jointly responsible for reviewing 
other peoples commits and reviewing patches in Jira. Please be sure to 
speak up if you see something wrong with any of our work.

Actually this applies to all people on this list - you can monitor svn 
commits by subscribing to our SVN commit mail list [1].

Ross

[1] http://forrest.apache.org/mail-lists.html#Lists

Re: new committer and PMC member: Gavin McDonald

[David Crossley <cr...@apache.org>]

Hi Gavin, i added you to the "forrest-developers" group
in Jira:
http://forrest.apache.org/issues.html#permissions

-David

Re: new committer and PMC member: Gavin McDonald

[Tim Williams <wi...@gmail.com>]

On 7/27/06, Gav.... <br...@brightontown.com.au> wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Crossley [mailto:crossley@apache.org]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 26 July 2006 9:35 AM
> > To: dev@forrest.apache.org
> > Subject: Re: new committer and PMC member: Gavin McDonald
> >
> > Thanks to you Gavin and welcome.
> >
> > As others have said, we can all help you to
> > become comfortable. Take it easy and remember
> > that if you are unsure about committing something
> > then you can still put a patch in Jira.
> >
> > Start by putting your entry in site-author/content/xdocs/who.xml
> >
> > Then try adding a small text file to be sure that
> > your SVN client is configured properly, e.g.
> >
> > cd $FORREST_HOME
> > echo "hello" > test.txt
> > svn add test.txt
> > svn status
> > svn commit test.txt
>
> I did this and after the username password prompts, allowed me to commit no
> problem. I checked on forrest svn via the web and the file was there.
>
> >
> > svn delete test.txt
> > svn commit test.txt
>
> Did that, did not ask me for username password this time, allowed me to
> Delete no problem. I checked on forrest svn via the web and the file had
> gone.
>
> Strange though, no commit messages came through from the svn@ list.
> Perhaps I was too quick in deleting ?

I saw a related issue on the infra@ list the other day.  The fix was
to add your apache email address to the -allow list of svn@f.a.o

Whoever moderates it can check it out?
--tim

RE: new committer and PMC member: Gavin McDonald

["Gav...." <br...@brightontown.com.au>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Crossley [mailto:crossley@apache.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, 26 July 2006 9:35 AM
> To: dev@forrest.apache.org
> Subject: Re: new committer and PMC member: Gavin McDonald
> 
> Thanks to you Gavin and welcome.
> 
> As others have said, we can all help you to
> become comfortable. Take it easy and remember
> that if you are unsure about committing something
> then you can still put a patch in Jira.
> 
> Start by putting your entry in site-author/content/xdocs/who.xml
> 
> Then try adding a small text file to be sure that
> your SVN client is configured properly, e.g.
> 
> cd $FORREST_HOME
> echo "hello" > test.txt
> svn add test.txt
> svn status
> svn commit test.txt

I did this and after the username password prompts, allowed me to commit no
problem. I checked on forrest svn via the web and the file was there.

> 
> svn delete test.txt
> svn commit test.txt

Did that, did not ask me for username password this time, allowed me to 
Delete no problem. I checked on forrest svn via the web and the file had
gone.

Strange though, no commit messages came through from the svn@ list.
Perhaps I was too quick in deleting ?

Gav...

> 
> -David
> 
> 
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Re: new committer and PMC member: Gavin McDonald

[David Crossley <cr...@apache.org>]

Thanks to you Gavin and welcome.

As others have said, we can all help you to
become comfortable. Take it easy and remember
that if you are unsure about committing something
then you can still put a patch in Jira.

Start by putting your entry in site-author/content/xdocs/who.xml

Then try adding a small text file to be sure that
your SVN client is configured properly, e.g.

cd $FORREST_HOME
echo "hello" > test.txt
svn add test.txt
svn status
svn commit test.txt

svn delete test.txt
svn commit test.txt

-David

RE: new committer and PMC member: Gavin McDonald

["Gav...." <br...@brightontown.com.au>]

Thanks everyone, I am pleased to be on-board.

A little more reading to do so hopefully by the weekend I will make a start
with a few small commits (so you don't have much to revert :) )

Quick, back up the Servers :)

Gav...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thorsten Scherler [mailto:thorsten@apache.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, 25 July 2006 4:57 PM
> To: dev@forrest.apache.org
> Subject: new committer and PMC member: Gavin McDonald
> 
> The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Forrest
> has asked Gavin McDonald to become a committer and
> member of the PMC, and we are pleased to announce that
> he has accepted.
> 
> Gavin has been around our community for some time. He has been gradually
> immersing himself in our community, striving to understand important
> parts of Forrest, giving excellent user perspective feedback and
> thorough testing. He is becoming increasingly involved with developer
> tasks, in particular he has started to help manage JIRA, and admin task
> that is overlooked by most committers.
> 
> Furthermore, he is happy to become involved in "sticky" threads, trying
> to find a sensible compromise to any given situation.
> 
> Being a committer enables easier contribution to the
> project since there is no need to go via the patch
> submission process. This should enable better productivity.
> Being a PMC member enables assistance with the management
> and to guide the direction of the project.
> 
> A very warm welcome to Gavin.
> 
> salu2
> --
> thorsten
> 
> "Together we stand, divided we fall!"
> Hey you (Pink Floyd)
> 
> 
> 
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