I believe that Hadoop did this recently. They added something to the bylaws specifically for this.
Brock On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 8:13 PM, Gunther Hagleitner <gunther.hagleit...@gmail.com> wrote: > As you might know, development for HIVE-7026 is happening on a branch > (http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hive/branches/llap/). In order to make > dev go smoother, I'd like to give Siddharth Seth commit rights on this > particular branch (He's contributed to hive before on several > occasions, is well aware of process, etc). > > Does anyone have any concerns with this? > > Thanks, > Gunther.
