On 8 June 2010 10:43, Paolo Bonzini <bonz...@gnu.org> wrote: > On 06/08/2010 06:42 AM, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: >> >> On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 15:05 -0600, Jeff Law wrote: >>> >>> So perhaps the thing to do is somehow separate patches from regular >>> contributors and irregular contributors. A relatively easy way to do >>> this would be for a regular contributor to include a keyword in their >>> message to gcc-patches to mark the thread as not needing 3rd party >>> tracking/pings. >> >> It seems that perhaps you are suggesting a status in between reviewers& >> W.A.A. contributors. > > I don't understand. WAA rights definitely allow you to shepherd and commit > patches from people without svn access, even for patches you can't approve.
And basile (and other WAA contributors), this would a nice contribution. Asking people that do not appear to have access to svn whether you want to commit their patches for them. And keeping them in the loop (by showing them the commit) soy they feel within the community and not outside of it. Cheers, Manuel.
