request eml dev status for saurab sood and gaurav gupta

[Christopher Jones]

David,

I would have to disapprove on this one.  I feel like there is a
difference between having CVS write access, and being committed to the
development of the EML spec and all that it entails.  There are a number
of people at NCEAS, ASU CES, PISCO, etc. that contribute, but that commit
through Chad, myself, and others.  I realize this is less convenient, but the
general protocol of voting for inclusion does not just mean that they
would have CVS commit access, but that they would also be voting
here-on-out on EML issues that affect the entire community. For these
reasons, the process of *demonstrating* commitment (list participation,
code contributions, discussion, etc ...) has been put into place in order
to provide a means of evaluation, and then a vote.

Also, EML is a content standard for the entire ecological community, not
just the LTER community.  I don't understand why code would be commited to
the EML repository that is specific to the data models of individual LTER
sites.  Perhaps this code belongs in another module related to KNB
products. I'm not sure about that.

Anyway, with all respect to Saurabh and Gaurav, I certainly don't want
anytone to think that my opinion is a reflection on them whatsoever.  It
is merely a commentary on the process of EML voting and the like.

All, please let me know if I'm interpreting the process incorrectly, and I
would be glad to reconsider.

Best,

chris

On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, David Blankman wrote:

> Gaurav Gupta and Saurab Sood are student programmers working for me at
> the LTER Network Office. They are concentrating on writing applications
> to convert legacy metadata to eml, including both dataset and remote
> sensing metadata. They are making a major contribution to getting eml
> from LTER sites.
>
> I would like them to be able to do cvs commits. My understanding is that
> this requires approval by the eml-dev group.
> Remember, the possible votes you can cast are:
> approve     -- support the membership fully
> whatever    -- don't know, or don't care enough to approve or object
> disapprove  -- object -- this veto's the vote
>
> To pass, at least 2/3 of the members must vote (8) and 2/3 of those must
> be approve votes with no disapprove votes cast.
>
> Gaurav Gupta
> Approve:  David Blankman
>
>
> Saurabh Sood
> Approve:  David Blankman
>
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