REQUEST: Role change for @neil-hickey

[neil-hickey]

Summary

This issue is a formal request for consideration of a role change in the Carvel project by a member of the community.

Each role is defined in our contribution model document. If you would like to request mutliple roles / multiple subprojects,
please open a new issue for each request.

GitHub Username

@neil-hickey

Role Requested

• Reviewer
• Approver
• Lead

Applicable Subproject

• carvel-kapp-controller
• carvel-ytt
• carvel-kapp
• carvel-kbld
• carvel-imgpkg
• carvel-vendir
• carvel-secretgen-controller
• kctrl

General Requirements

• I have reviewed the code of conduct (https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/carvel/blob/develop/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).
• I have enabled 2FA on my GitHub account (https://github.com/settings/security).
• I have active participation and provide support (such as GitHub, meetings, Slack, Stack Overflow) in the community for long enough to have demonstrated knowledge and competency (such as 3 months).
• I have at least one sponsor (see current maintainers list).
• I have spoken to my sponsors ahead of this application, and they have agreed to sponsor my application.

Role Specific Requirements

[LINK_TO_REVIEWER_DEFINITION] Reviewer

• I have reviewed / authored of at least 5 substantial* pull requests to the subproject(s).

[LINK_TO_APPROVER_DEFINITION] Approver

• I have reviewed / authored several substantial* pull requests to the codebase.
• Demonstrated the ability to plan and execute a track of work.

[LINK_TO_LEAD_DEFINITION] Approver

• I have a deep understanding of the technical goals and direction of the subproject.
• I have a deep understanding of the domains of the subproject.
• I have a deep understanding of the design of the subproject.
• I have contributed to the design and direction by doing all of:
  • Authoring and reviewing proposals.
  • Initiating, contributing and resolving discussions (emails, GitHub issues, meetings).
  • Identifying subtle or complex issues in designs and implementation PRs.
  • Directly contributed to the subproject through implementation and / or review.

Sponsors

• @joe-kimmel-vmw

List of contributions to the Carvel subprojects(s)

PRs reviewed / authored

• Add new optional field to fetch steps to allow specifying the local dir when fetching kapp-controller#544
• Allow dynamic KC config updates kapp-controller#591
• Rename KC owned apps from x-ctrl to x.app or x.pkgr kapp-controller#665
• Add includedSoftware field to Package spec kapp-controller#580
• Namespace isolation kapp-controller#826

Issues responded to

• Kapp-controller will not work properly in Kubernetes 1.24. kapp-controller#687
• kapp-controller logs the proxy credentials kapp-controller#392

Next Steps

• Once your sponsors have responded with a +1 for your nomination, your request will be reviewed by the project leads. Any missing information will be requested.

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*Substantial is subject to the lead's discretion (e.g. refactors, enhancements rather than grammar correction or trivial pull requests)

[cppforlife]

lgtm