Core team nomination: Roger Meier (bufferoverflow)
Nominee Details
Nominee GitLab Username: @bufferoverflow
Contribution Overview
This is a 'slightly different' nomination in that I can't nominate an entire team, but I'm nominating someone who I believe is directly responsible for the actions of a team. Having Roger's voice in the core team will further recognize the impact this small team has made on the direction of our product.
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Duration of Engagement with GitLab: Since 2019
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Other: _______
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Notable Contributions:
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Roger and his team run code.siemens.com, a >70000 user GitLab instance. Together with his team, they've had at least 8 MVPs over many releases (going back to 12.6) and a significant number of nominees.
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They made a decision some years ago not to patch their instance, but to actively contribute any of their required changes to the platform.
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The following other contributors are (or were) under Roger's team:
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Roger and his team have delivered multiple features including:
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Issues Engaged With:
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Additional Criteria for Consideration
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Act as a steward for the wider GitLab community
- Roger and his team run an annual (small scale) open source conference. On this year's conference announcement (shared on linkedin) - Roger was wearing a GitLab t-shirt
😁 . - Their use of GitLab has inspired other organisations to adopt GitLab, and they regularly share their practices with other teams in their area.
- The team is the maintainer of the python-gitlab library - a go-to project when interacting with GitLab from python.
- Roger and his team run an annual (small scale) open source conference. On this year's conference announcement (shared on linkedin) - Roger was wearing a GitLab t-shirt
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Alignment with Core Team's Mission
- By directly choosing to contribute features back to the open source side of the platform, their team has exemplified the power of the open source approach, while reaping the rewards themselves. Their features have increased their own ability to use and scale the product, while sharing those with other users.
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Help GitLab live up to its mission
- The features contributed by Roger's team have actively improved the system significantly over a sustained period of time. Their thoughtful enhancements, while dirven from their own needs, have helped shape the tool into one that is more rounded with increased usability. In many cases their features are shaped around improving the administration of the product, which in turn makes it more attractive for others to choose when looking for a platform.
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Help GitLab live up to its values
- The Siemens team subscribe very tightly to values, as is evident by their numerous and repeated MVP nominations and wins. Iteration is one of their strengths, as is evident by the number of MRs logged to realise some larger features. A great example of this is the
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feature that Gerardo is currently working on (MRs)
- The Siemens team subscribe very tightly to values, as is evident by their numerous and repeated MVP nominations and wins. Iteration is one of their strengths, as is evident by the number of MRs logged to realise some larger features. A great example of this is the