Jukka Zitting wrote on Sun, May 27, 2012 at 11:40:36 +0200: > It sounds like you have a reasonably good handle on that, so I'm not > too worried, but my instinct suggests that the strict RTC model and > distinction between committers and (P)PMC members may be structural > factors that could easily end up tripping that balance. Are these > really essential tools for the project or could you live without them? > Other solutions to the RTC model include separate maintenance branches > with stricter review and testing requirements, and the only cases > where I really see a need for the committer/(P)PMC separation is with > umbrella projects or special cases like GSoC students or co-operation > across project boundaries.
Subversion allows any committer (full or partial) to open an experimental branch at any time. This is comparable, I think, to encouraging CTR feature branches in an RTC community (with "review at merge time" --- like we did for some of stefan2's branches). http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/general#lightweight-branches --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
