CR+2 on MediaWiki for Aryeh Gregor (aka Simetrical) - Wikitech-l

22 Aug 2019

I propose for Aryeh Gregor to be granted the right to approve changes against
MediaWiki core and extensions, by adding him to the mediawiki LDAP group.

Please voice support or concerns on
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230979>

Aryeh has been contributing to MediaWiki on and off for a decade or so, both as
a volunteer and a contractor. He joined gerrit only a year ago, but he had
commit access already back in the day when MediaWiki was still managed on SVN.
In the time I have been working with Aryeh, he has shown excellent skill and
good judgement. Granting him merge rights would allow him to contribute not only
by writing code, but also by approving changes made by others.

Aryeh commented on the ticket to note the following:

...
  My older contributions are available via git log
--author simetrical. I
 couldn't find a webpage that would display the results of the search that I
 could link to. Note that that includes things from the SVN era that I only
 committed and didn't author, so it's inflated (probably only slightly). But if
 we leave that aside, according to git shortlog -sne, I have 1052 commits (after
 updating .mailmap to merge the three different e-mail addresses I've used).
 Surprisingly, this still makes me the #19 all-time contributor by number of
 commits. I think I always tended to break up my commits more than a lot of
 people, though. 

-- 
Daniel Kinzler
Principal Software Engineer, Core Platform
Wikimedia Foundation