Interesting feature. This feels to me similar to "branch committership" (not sure about other projects but Hadoop uses it for major features). I think it will help foster more engaged communities.
On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 1:45 AM Paul Angus <paul.an...@shapeblue.com> wrote: > I was thinking that we would/should/might follow the permissions > philosophy that we have for cwiki, but allowing anyone to be a Triager > would make administration of it a million times simpler. I would not have > any objection to that... > > > CTO > paul.an...@shapeblue.com > www.shapeblue.com > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Niclas Hedhman <nic...@hedhman.org> > Sent: 21 August 2020 07:32 > To: Apache Members <memb...@apache.org> > Cc: dev@community.apache.org > Subject: Re: Triage role on Github > > This "elder" thinks this is all good, but you *could* rely more on social, > rather than technical, solutions to achieve what you want without needing > Infra assistance. If the concept is introduced in a given project, where > people are given commit rights, with the explicit expectations only to use > it for "triage" then I think it will be respected. Classic reference is > Subversion project, which gives a social grant to a part of the codebase, > although there is no technical means to prevent a committer to mess it up. > But, if they do, it is easily restored and actions can be taken depending > on the nature of the reason. > > > // Niclas > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 5:20 PM Paul Angus <pau...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Hi Members, > > > > One of our (CloudStack) comitters has come with a great idea to > > increase project contributions... > > > > Traditionally Github has been very binary, you're either a commiter > > and you can write to a Repo and perform Issue and Pull Request admin > > (like add labels, change status, etc), or you aren't a comitter and > 'sucks to be you'. > > > > Githib has introduced a 'Triage' role which bridges the gap. The > > Triage role, allows issue and pull request admin, but still blocks > > writing to the actual code. [1] > > > > I guess we'd need a mechanism to control/add contributors to the > > Triage team per project, kinda like Karma for Confluence. > > > > I think that would be a great stepping stone for contributors to get > > more involved in projects, so I'd like to gather support from other > > projects and the ASF 'elders' for the principle. > > > > Many thanks > > > > Paul Angus > > > > [1] > > https://docs.github.com/en/github/setting-up-and-managing-organization > > s-and-teams/repository-permission-levels-for-an-organization > > > > >
