Make David Kim Backend Maintainer

Trainee maintainer issue: #6581 (closed)

Overview

I've been with GitLab for about 15 month and have been a Trainee Maintainer for about 11 month.

I've reviewed about 75 MRs and I've authored about 87 MRs.

Examples of reviews

• gitlab-org/gitlab!22439 (merged) - A fairly large community contribution which I made several suggestions
• gitlab-org/gitlab!32341 (merged) - Commented on code readability improvements
• gitlab-org/gitlab!42119 (merged) - Another community contribution that needed to be split into smaller MRs and needed some more guidance
• gitlab-org/gitlab!48595 (merged) - Noticed a bug during review
• gitlab-org/gitlab!39957 (merged) - Improved spec readability
• gitlab-org/gitlab!43778 (merged) - General code improvements
• gitlab-org/gitlab!44498 (merged) - General code improvements
• gitlab-org/gitlab!48618 (merged) - General code improvements
• gitlab-org/gitlab!52127 (merged) - Persistent attempts to get my point across

Things to improve

• I missed changelogs several times so I need to be mindful of that
• I need to do more hands on testing to verify the correctness of MRs

@gitlab-org/maintainers/rails-backend please chime in below with your thoughts, and approve this MR if you agree.

Developer checklist

• Before this MR is merged
  • Mention @gitlab-org/maintainers/rails-backend, if not done (this issue template should do this automatically)
  • Assign this issue to your manager
• After this MR is merged
  • Request a maintainer from the #backend_maintainers Slack channel to add you as an Owner to gitlab-org/maintainers/rails-backend
  • Consider adding 'backend maintainer' to your Slack notification keywords

Manager checklist

• Before this MR is merged
  • The MR has been open for 5 working days
  • More than half of the existing maintainers approve the MR
  • There are no blocking concerns raised (if there are, please follow https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/workflow/code-review/#how-to-become-a-project-maintainer)
• After this MR is merged
  • Announce the good news in the relevant channels listed in https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/#keeping-yourself-informed