From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 04:08:27 GMT
Subject: Re: Git Project Leadership Committee
Message-ID: <20180819040827.GA31797@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CABPp-BGq7rw6YfyxGJbhcGeeVONTSkAzE7h8CiVNx_AA-veUgQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 07:32:38PM -0700, Elijah Newren wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 3:43 PM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> >  - we should avoid anyone who is affiliated with a company that already
> >    has a member on the committee. So nobody from Google and nobody from
> >    GitHub. I would extend that to Microsoft, too, given a certain
> >    impending acquisition. I'd expect anybody who is affiliated with a
> >    company to recuse themselves from decisions that directly affect that
> >    company (which is what we've done so far).
> 
> That might make it hard for some of us to nominate others, since as
> far as I can tell (e.g. looking at shortlog -sne output) few git
> contributors use work email addresses to do so and we don't
> necessarily know employers of other contributors.

I would say to err on the side of nominating, and the candidate can
provide the information.

-Peff