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@xxxxxxxx> 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
