+1 @ Bertrand's idea On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Luciano Resende <luckbr1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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.... > > I'd say those are temporary accounts rather than partial, and from the > GSoC point of view I think it's good to have them. > > As you say the issue is making sure those accounts are disabled once > GSoC ends, as we would do when a trainee leaves you company. > > One suggestion would be to add those accounts to a special LDAP group > named "trainee" or something. Once GSoC ends, someone (GSoC admins or > comdev PMC) would need to request infra to disable all of them. If a > student is voted in as a committer in the meantime, their PMC chair > would just remove them from the "trainee" group. > > -Bertrand >
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