Invite Siddharth to the Core Team

Nominee: Siddharth Asthana

Nominee username: edith007

Merge Requests

Issues

How long has nominee been contributing to GitLab and GitLab community? What are their notable contributions?

At least since 2021.

• Siddharth was a GSoC 2022 contributor for GitLab. His work during the GSoC is described in gitlab-org&8765 and https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2022/projects/yaKP2iJK. He worked mostly on Git and Gitaly.
• After passing the GSoC 2022 final evaluation, Siddharth has kept working on his GSoC project and sent updated version of a patch series to the Git mailing list until his work has been merged earlier this month into the master branch (https://github.com/git/git/commit/319c3abadb047b37e33195f29486794501c8f83f).
• He was one of the top 10 GitLab contributors in 2021: https://about.gitlab.com/community/top-annual-contributors/
• He is a Superstar Contributor in GitLab with more than 200 MR merged (https://gitlab.com/edith007).
• He won GitLab Q3 2021, Q4 2021, Q1 2022 & Q3 2022 Quarterly Hackathon in a row. For example: https://forum.gitlab.com/t/announcing-gitlabs-q3-hackathon-winners/75438
• Recently he got selected in GitLab Leading Organization Program. https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/community-relations/leading-organizations/ . He got this email from Liz Petoskey: https://files.slack.com/files-pri/T03N1RJJX7C-F04H73SEWG5/image.png
• He also shadowed Wayne Harber in Developer Director Shadow Program. https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/development/shadow/director-shadow-program.html. He is writing a blog post on his experience shadowing Wayne.
• He is a a GitLab hero: https://about.gitlab.com/community/heroes/members/
• He helped 4 new contributor to make their first MR in the Gitlab Q4 2022 Hackathon.

How has nominee demonstrated our team mission?

Act as a steward for the wider GitLab community

He has helped at least 4 contributors create their first MR in the Gitlab Q4 2022 Hackathon.

Help GitLab live up to its mission

He is writing a blog post about shadowing Wayne Harber as part of the Developer Director Shadow Program.

Help GitLab live up to its values

What he liked about his GSoC project, which adds mailmap support to GitLab (through adding it to a Git command), is that it improves GitLab for its contributors, as it allows the names in the commit to be changed before they are actually displayed. So it helps with DIB issues.