Re: Git Project Leadership Committee

From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 19, 2018, 02:32 UTC
Message-ID: <CABPp-BGq7rw6YfyxGJbhcGeeVONTSkAzE7h8CiVNx_AA-veUgQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180816224138.GA15490@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 3:43 PM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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>  - 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.

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> So here are the nominations I came up with. If you'd like to nominate
> somebody else (or yourself!), please do. If you have opinions, let me
> know (public or private, as you prefer).
>
>  - Christian Couder
>  - Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

I think either of them would be excellent choices.