Filip Maj wrote on Thu, May 24, 2012 at 04:58:15 -0700: > It makes sense to me that Apache try to curate the strong developer > communities that exist on GitHub. There is an ease of sending patches via > GitHub that is at odds with the process of, at the minimum, registering > for the dev list for a specific project and submitting a patch that way. > My goal here is to enable different communities, whether they are within > Apache or not, to contribute code to Apache projects. As long as the legal > stuff is covered, then I don't see a problem. The belief of "Community > Over Code" in my mind reflects this goal. > > My answers in-line below. > > > On 5/24/12 1:28 PM, "Daniel Shahaf" <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote: > > >Filip Maj wrote on Thu, May 24, 2012 at 03:57:51 -0700: > >> My answers in-line below. > >> > >> On 5/24/12 12:48 PM, "Daniel Shahaf" <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote: > >> > >> >(wearing both an infra hat and an svn hat...) > >> > > >> >Filip Maj wrote on Thu, May 24, 2012 at 03:22:19 -0700: > >> >> Without a doubt getting access to the project mirrors on GitHub is a > >> >> must-have. Setting up different teams on GitHub is trivial. Could > >>have a > >> >> "committers" team, and any other team deemed necessary. We can then > >>add > >> >> permissions such as ability to administer the github project to these > >> >> teams. > >> >> > >> > > >> >Are you aware of Apache's requirements here? Example: every commit > >>must > >> >generate an email notification. Can you grant people access to github > >> >in a manner that preserves this requirement? > >> > >> Yep. Every pull request sends an email to the dev list (as per below). > >>Any > >> other issues you foresee w.r.t. meeting Apache's requirements? > >> > > > >Read what I wrote again perhaps? It has nothing to do with pull requests. > > Right, commits, not pull requests. This happens already. Adding > administrative rights to the github mirrors would not change the commit > method already in place.
Okay, if people can have admin rights on github without having commit rights, then my concern is addressed. I am quite surprised that it is this way, though: in my country, people who have admin rights also have write rights...
