It looks like various Apache projects are voting GSoC students as "partial committers". As Apache does not have a formal process for handling this type of account requests, regular accounts are created for these students, with an Apache e-mail alias, and access is given to general committer areas in SVN (e.g. committer area in svn, etc) and then respective PMCs provides write access to particular areas in SVN, such as a sandbox or a collaboration area. If the student fails the GSoC programm, or is not elected as regular committer during or after the program, there is no process for disabling/deleting these accounts. This is very problematic and can cause multiple issues.
As the PMC overseeing the GSoC program at Apache, I'd like to see a set of recommendations, guidelines and if necessary processes on how to handle these cases. Having said that, I believe students are and should be treated as any other community contributor, that have design discussions on the project mailing list, and provides patch towards earning trust and committership status as a community recognition of his contributions. What are your thoughts on what should be the official recommendation, and based on that we can discuss required processes. -- Luciano Resende http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://twitter.com/lresende1975 http://lresende.blogspot.com/
