Sorry this is other question but, one of my students asked about "anyone can jump in and volunteer to be a committer."[1] ..........
What's the exact policy on this? 1. http://markmail.org/thread/jb63zsbenmanr3fs Thanks, Ed On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 5:03 PM, ant elder <ant.el...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 16:55, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>>... >>>> Personally I feel that GSoC students should earn commit access just >>>> like anyone else. >>> >>> I have a lot of sympathy for Greg's position. Treating 'committer' as >>> a single monolithic category drives people away. >> >> Right. It is necessary to distinguish between "commit access [to a >> branch]" and "commit access [to trunk]". I fully concur that access to >> trunk follows the same pattern as regular committers. GSoC students >> have no elevated rights. >> >> However, I think providing a GSoC student with commit to a branch is >> an easy decision, and that it should be the default policy. (for the >> reasons listed in my previous note) >> >> [ next part strays from the GSoC discussion ] >>>... >>> should have to. I'd be happy to see the foundation endorse the idea >>> that a PMC can choose to grant commit karma to branches, in a trial >>> basis, to people who have submitted a suitable cla. That would not >>> given them nexus karma, web-site-editing karma, or dogma karma. >> >> The Subversion PMC has an operating rule that basic states, "any >> individual PMC member may grant commit access to a non-trunk area, to >> a developer with an ICLA on file". There is a subjective level to >> this: does it clearly make sense (say, a branch), or might it be a >> little controversial (say, the directory for the 'svn' command-line >> tool). For the latter, we encourage the Member to float the idea on >> private@ first. But we don't have a strict written policy here; good >> judgement is always a great replacement for more rules :-) >> >> I would very much encourage other PMCs to adopt similar policies. >> Again, with version control, the phrase "damage control" almost >> doesn't apply. >> >> Cheers, >> -g >> > > I agree with Greg and the others in favour of keeping it easy to get > write access, and i really like the Subversion PMC approach. > > I don't understand the mindset that commit access should be hard to > get or something that must be worked hard to earn. Most project i > watch don't find it that easy to attract new developers so when one > does turn up i think its better to be open and welcoming and not be > like "thanks but earn you place first" which is more likely to just > discourage them. > > ...ant > -- Best Regards, Edward J. Yoon @eddieyoon
