Eclipse Community Awards: Nomination for 2022 Top Committer

This issue is to accept nominations for the Top Committer Award as part of the 2022 Eclipse Community Awards. Nominations open on May 2 and close on May 31. Voting (via SurveyMonkey) begins on June 1 and closes on June 30.

This award is to recognize the Eclipse committer who best exemplifies community support - through code contributions, fixing bugs, forum and mailing list posts, conference presentations, blogs and other areas.

Visit the Eclipse Awards page for further details on the Eclipse Community Awards.

Nominate someone by listing their name and a short explanation on why you think they should win the award.

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I would like to nominate Christoph Laeubrich for this award. Over the last year, he's become the author of the main innovations in the workflows of Eclipse Plugin Developers, facilitating interactions with other technologies and ecosystem (such as BND and Maven) in order to allow making Eclipse development feel simpler yet more powerful to everyone, from beginners to most experienced committers and to better make Eclipse development better integrate in the wider Java world. To achieve that result, his work has spanned across multiple projects: Tycho, m2e, Platform, PDE, p2... where he's quickly become one of the most active contributors/committers. He's also actively participating to many discussions, allowing to find the best solutions or to identify new enhancement opportunities; and he also provides a lot of support for many users. By challenging the statu quo, he's often on the first line when it comes to identifying and implementing major innovations; he's brought some "freshness" to all those projects.

Hello! I want to nominate Otávio Santana.

Otavio Santana has contributed to several eclipse projects, mainly under the Jakarta EE and MicroProfile umbrella. He helps with several specifications in both worlds and submitted the first specification in the Jakarta EE world - Jakarta NoSQL. Otavio speaks at several conferences worldwide, such as Geecon, Geekle, TDC, etc. As a community leader, he organizes seminars, meetups, and program committees in several Java user groups besides writing Portuguese, Italian, French, and English articles.

I would like to nominate Harald Mackamul (Bosch) from the Eclipse APP4MC project and PMC Lead for the Eclipse Automotive TLP.

Harald is a very active project lead and committer in the APP4MC project, where he did more then 2/3 of the contributions. He is number 1 in APP4MC Contributions and number 4 over all Eclipse Automotive project contributions. (https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/automotive/who) Harald is not only active in the APP4MC he is also leading the Automotive TLP PMC. With his work, his knowledge and his ideas, Harald adds great and big value to the Eclipse pillar Automotive and Mobility to strengthen the position. Without Harald, APP4MC and the Automotive PMC wouldn´t be successful as they are today.

I would like to nominate Colin Grant (@cgrant28j). Here's why: Colin has become one of the most productive contributors on the Theia project in the last year. He consistently writes quality code in all areas of the project. His work ranges from small bug-fixes to major changes, like changing the way we import the Monaco editor into Theia. Colin also reviews a lot of change requests. He offers thoughtful and thorough feedback, but always does it in his typical, gentle way. His team spirit and good old common sense make him a valuable voice in any discussion and a pleasure to work with. For all these reasons I think that he very much deserves the award of "Top Committer 2022"

Hey everyone, just a reminder that the nominations are closing on the 31st and that you or your friend are getting your chance to be featured at Eclipsecon in October. As well as being showcased on our organization's social media and other forms of company correspondence. Don't miss the deadline

I would like to nominate Scott Marlow for his work on the Jakarta EE 10 TCK. The Jakarta EE TCK project is extremely complex. Scott has consistently worked on adjusting the tests and analyzing results. He is also actively keeping everyone up-to-date with the progress by constantly updating the wiki and CI Jobs, hosting regular TCK calls, keeping the Jakarta EE Platform Project in the loop, and updating the Jakarta EE Steering- and Specification Committees.

The TCK is not the most "sexy" project to work on and does not get much outward visibility, but it is vital to the success of Jakarta EE. I am pretty sure that we would not have been able to deliver Jakarta EE 10 without Scott's work on the TCK.

I would like to nominate Denghui Dong(@ddongjac) for his solid contribution to Eclipse Jifa and Migration Toolkit for Java projects. He is the project leader of Eclipse Jifa, designed for troubleshooting Java applications in the Cloud. Denghui contributes significantly to the Eclipse Jifa project. In addition to the initial implementation, he is driving the community collaboration efforts to include more powerful features, such as K8S Scheduling, GC Log, and Thread Dump analysis. Furthermore, to promote Eclipse Jifa technology, Denghui speaks at software development conferences worldwide, such as jChampions Conference, Java Global Summit, etc. Thus, many Jifa-related technical articles have been widely reported at various mediums such as InfoQ, DZone, QAInsights, etc. Denghui is also the project leader of Eclipse Migration Toolkit for Java (EMT4J). EMT4J will be open-sourced as a sub-project under Eclipse Adoptium and aims to simplify the migration of Java applications from previous versions of OpenJDK and help facilitate the new Java version adoption in Java ecosystem.

Thanks to everyone for the nominations. Voting is now open on SurveyMonkey.

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