In the spring of 2017, a group of developers from TypeFox delivered a first drop of the Theia project, on GitHub. A group from Ericsson joined them and helped support and improve the new FOSS project.
Vincent Fugnitto (Vince) joined us about a hear later, in June 2018, around the same time the project was joining the Eclipse Foundation and became Eclipse Theia. Since then, Vince has been one of the project's most active committers and among the most helpful, e.g. helping adopters on GitHub issues and the project discussion forum. He has been the main release engineer of the project, doing most monthly releases in the last years. His good work has been officially recognised, when Vince won the "Top Committer" award (across all projects) at the Eclipse Community Awards 2021 [1]. See also the main project repo contribution statistics, that I generated recently [2]. See also this graph [3] that shows how amazingly consistent Vince's contribution to this repo have been - it's almost a straight line.
I wanted to also mention that behind the scenes, Vince has been helping me with many of my lead tasks, such as supporting fellow committers and other contributors, with regards to the project's IP due diligence process (e.g. offering guidance, opening numerous IP check tickets for the most complicated cases, etc).
So, in short, Vincent has been leading by example since he joined Theia and really cares about the project. 5 years later, he is the second most prolific historic committer and the first, still active. I think it's time to officially recognise what has been happening unofficially for a long time, and so it is my pleasure to nominate Vincent Fignitto as a co-lead on Eclipse Theia™.
[1]: https://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/eclipseawards/winners21.php
[2]: Generated using "Gitstats". Results are approximative because we can't perfectly map contributions from different names and or emails, that are from the same person, for all cases. We have made an effort to do so for the main contributors.
https://marcdumais-work.github.io/gitstats/authors.html#list_of_authors
[3]: Graph top Commits per author (Vince is the dark green line)
https://marcdumais-work.github.io/gitstats/authors.html#commits_per_aut…
| Voter | Vote | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Marc Dumais | +1 | +1 implied by nomination |
| Vincent Fugnitto | +1 | +1 implied by nomination |
| Alvaro Sanchez-Leon | +1 | Kudos Vince !! |
| Tobias Ortmayr | +1 | |
| Martin Fleck | +1 | |
| Rob Moran | +1 | Awesome! |
| Mark Sujew | +1 | |
| Johannes Faltermeier | +1 | |
| Jonas Helming | +1 | well deserved! |
| Philip Langer | +1 | Thank you, Vince, for your excellent, long-standing, and pivotal contributions to Theia! |
PMC Approval
- Martin Lippert (+1) Welcome!