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PMI no longer shows company affiliation or project participation

The PMI used to allow company and project participation to be determined.

a) Following links on e.g. https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/modeling.modisco/who it is hard to determine the company affiliations of committers. This used to be visible via the missing organisational contributions.

The Individual Contribution Activity pie chart is missing. The fixed three months is very limiting. IIRC It used to be a year. Perhaps there should be display options.

Even if The Organisational Contribution Activity is empty there should at least be place holding title and a list of historical contributions.

If I click on Ed Willink it takes me to an Ed Willink on MoDisco page. Surely clicking on Ed Willink should take me to the Ed Willink at Eclipse page which contains useful iunformation? Ah! it does but the page that has been reorganised with tabs so that the useless Marketplace content is shown. The projects tab should be the default.

b) Following links on e.g. https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/modeling.qvt-oml/who I see individual contributions but no longer any company affilation contributions.

Perversely I also see two different pie sections for Christopher Gerking without any explanation or links explaining the schizophrenia.

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There seems to be very inconsistent treatment of non-member companies. Ok the committers do not contribute financially but they contribute massively in time and experience. The organisation should not be left blank, confusing. As a minimum it should be "non-member organisation". But surely it should not fail to respect the value of contributions? It should be the copyright entity, so for me "Willink Transformations Ltd.". The usage is also inconsistent. Why is Hugo Bruneliere shown as "Research Engineer, PhD at IMT Atlantique". That was no doubt true in 2008, but surely 18 years on, the PhD is now done? But of course it is useful for anyone looking at 2008 activities. Organisation association should be time-lined.