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@mcdruid has been a provisional maintainer of the 7.x branch for approaching a year (commit).
In that time, he's contributed to and overseen 6 releases (7.68 - 7.73) and published and maintained a Roadmap / Release Schedule for D7.
To quote myself (Fabianx):
I'd like mcdruid to be a real committer (no longer provisional) as he does great work and presents patches that are for most cases directly committable and don't need further work. In addition for complex patches he always solicits feedback from me and others.
Therefore I am very happy to propose that mcdruid be made a full core committer.
Proposed resolution
Make @mcdruid a full maintainer of the 7.x branch.
Remaining tasks
Review and commit patch to MAINTAINERS.txt
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| #4 | 3174366-4.patch | 461 bytes | mcdruid |
Comments
Comment #2
mcdruid commentedComment #3
mcdruid commentedComment #4
mcdruid commentedOops, and here's the patch without some other stuff I was working on.
Comment #5
longwaveI don't know who gets to RTBC this but +1 from me.
Comment #6
fabianx commentedComment #7
fabianx commentedI'd like mcdruid to be a real committer (no longer provisional) as he does great work and presents patches that are for most cases directly committable and don't need further work. In addition for complex patches he always solicits feedback from me and others.
Therefore I am very happy to propose that mcdruid be made a full core committer.
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Therefore:
The patch is RTBC, but now needs to be approved by Dries, who puts the status to RTBC.
Assigning to Dries
Comment #8
webchickI don't think you need another +1 here, but +1 anyway. :) As the original release manager of Drupal 7, I've been repeatedly impressed with @mcdruid's ability to prioritize critical improvements for D7, to exercise care and caution in testing prior to merging in changes, and his encouragement of other contributors. Glad you'll be joining the team as a full member! :)
Comment #9
joseph.olstad+1
Another plug for
#973436: Overzealous locking in variable_initialize()
I have mentioned this issue to McDruid, Imploring this rtbc to go in asap , several of my clients have needed this and it has cost my clients a lot of money over the years (to pay me for debugging and critical urgent work as they discovered unexpected consequences related to not having this 10 yr old rtbc fix)
McDruid doing great work
Comment #10
joseph.olstadAny objections?
Comment #11
dries commentedNo objections. Approved! Thanks for all the hard work.
Comment #12
gábor hojtsyComment #14
fabianx commentedFixed, thanks for the patience!