An interesting slip-up. The ASF document that you refer to is out-of-date. There was a recent discussion on this [EMAIL PROTECTED] list about the practice of doing personal stuff on the private pmc mailing list. We need to fix the docs.
-David Ted Leung wrote: > Nuts. This obviously went to the wrong list. > > Sorry for the spam. > > Ted > > Ted Leung wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >We are getting to the point of needing to grant commit privileges > >for some of the projects at OSAF. This is a first cut at > >describing how the process should work for code committers. In > >the future we will probably extend this notion to design > >contributors as well, but we are still trying to figure out what > >that means. What you see here is similar to the process used by > >Apache and many other large open source projects. > > > >As usual questions, comments, critiques and other feedback are very > >welcome. > > > >Ted > > > >--------- > >Participants in OSAF projects can take on a number of roles > > > >Users are people that use our software. We hope that they will > >contribute to the project they use by reporting bugs and making > >erquests for features. We also hope that they will become part of > >the project community, by helping other users and telling other > >people about our software > > > >Contributors are people who contribute to one ofthe projects via > >design, code, documentation, or testing. Contributors are active > >participants in the project mailing lists and provide design ideas, > >code changes, or documentation changes. > > > >Code contributors may also become committers - They have write > >access to the source code repository, and have signed a Contributor > >License Agreement (CLA). > > > >* Becoming a committer > > > >If a code contributor has contributed a significant number of high- > >quality patches, is interested in continuing to contribute to the > >project, and has demonstrated the ability to work well with other > >contributors, then an existing committer may propose granting that > >contributor commit access. > > > >Discussion of a potential new committer will initially take place > >in private (at the moment we have no private lists for this > >purpose). After this initial vetting discussion, the actual vote > >can occur on the project's public developer list. This practice of > >a private discussion followed by a public, pro-forma vote is a <a > >href="http://incubator.apache.org/learn/newcommitters.html";>best > >practice</a> adopted from the Apache Software Foundation. Only > >votes cast by existing committers are binding. > > > >After the new committer has been voted in, they must sign a > >Contributor License Agreement (CLA). Once this document is on > >file, the IT Staff at OSAF will create the necessary accounts, etc. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
