On Jul 12, 2005, at 8:32 PM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote:
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote, On 7/12/2005 8:43 AM:
On Jul 11, 2005, at 10:56 PM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote:
All code donations go into
/geronimo/incubator/donationx/*
The contributors would get restricted committer access to their
project; granting committer access gives us better visibility
how well the person works in a community setting. They and,
hopefully Geronimo committers, would whip it into shape. The
community would provide guidance and, hopefully, vote it into
Geronimo once its ready and all the appropriate paper work was
obtained.
The "probationary" committers would, hopefully, get voted into
Geronimo, regardless of their projects status. I have never
heard of a motivated developer not getting committer access.
I'd like to propose a slight modification. That we give them
committer access w/o a formal, restricted ACL, but a clear
understanding that there's a place where they are bring brought in
to work, and if they wish to participate elsewhere, they do so
via standard engagement of working with others, learning about
the area, proposing changes on dev@ etc, until they and others
are comfortable, etc.
Any change can be vetoed, and any change can be rolled back. I
think we should assume a level of trust, and if broken, commit
priv can be revoked.
Just consider for a little while. I believe that this won't be a
popular suggestion, but the risk is small, and the upside great,
it keeps things simple, and I believe leads to a more unified,
richer community. :)
I don't think that the extended privs would necessarily lead to "a
more unified, richer community" but would, instead, increase the
burden on those Geronimo committers charged with monitoring the
contribution under probation.
Why? we have the same responsibility to the codebase either way.
geir
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