Re: Git Project Leadership Committee

[Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>]

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.

> 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.