On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:09:50AM +0200, John Marino wrote:
> Would it be so bad if all my submitted patches (as a recognized
> quality contributor with history) just got committed as a passthrough?

This has been explored on the mailing lists before, however, we don't
technically have a way to do either of the following:

 - let people commit to "just some" ports

 - have any patches be autocommitted

No one has ever tackled the former problem.  The latter problem just
seems to me to open up ways for people to abuse the system.  It makes
me nervous.

As a counter-suggestion, with the addition of new hardware to redports,
we are starting to see people referencing a correct install/deinstall
log that has already been created there.  But IMHO we still want to have
committers going over the diffs to make sure that e.g. there are no trojans
and no undocumented changes in behavior (config file locations, startup
scripts, and so forth), at least to the maximum extent feasible.

There's some kind of middle ground between letting too many people have
commit access, and too few, and we've tried to walk it.  I doubt that this
explanation will answer your (legitimate) criticsm, however.

mcl
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