On 04/08/16 16:22, Hal Wine wrote: > On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 1:48 AM, Gervase Markham <g...@mozilla.org > <mailto:g...@mozilla.org>> wrote: > > I had a few abortive goes at this a few years ago; it's an enormous > effort to get everyone on the same bandwagon, and just leads to the > creation of bureaucracy for no value. Let's not try it again. > > Actually, there are some modern attempts at this - times have changed.
I'm not sure any of the things you name amount to an attempt to write a single policy for all Mozilla repos governing who can check in or not; I accept that there have been more scope-limited efforts, of course. > But I > agree with you that having a formal policy for Firefox, and any repos > which are upstream of it, makes sense. Knowing who can check in to a > codebase which gets shipped to hundreds of millions of people is a good > idea. > > Since key upstream repos are now on GitHub (e.g Rust), this really means > we need a plan that covers GitHub, imo. A very fair point. (Although it need not cover all of our Github.) > As is often the case, these "nice to haves" are "underfunded mandates" > until something happens. There are a few of us who keep trying to push > the rock up the hill in between the events that get everyone's attention. :-) It's one of those "buying insurance" things - if we don't do this, perhaps nothing bad will happen, but perhaps something will, and it'll be much worse for not having done it. Gerv _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
