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On Sep 26, 2013, at 9:05 PM, "Alan Gates" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Apache culture is frowns on creating specific types of committers.  If 
> someone is focussed on docs (or qa, or whatever) more than code, I think they 
> should still be a regular committer.  Those parts of a software project are 
> just as important as writing code.  In the pig project we voted in a person 
> who worked just on docs, and it went fine.  In general, before you trust 
> someone enough to make him a committer you should trust him enough to know 
> his limits and not be checking in patches to parts of the project that aren't 
> his expertise.
> 
> Alan.
> 
> On Sep 26, 2013, at 7:07 AM, Kevin Minder wrote:
> 
>> Hey Everyone,
>> 
>> My recent change to move most of the release specific docs from wiki to svn 
>> is likely to create a bottleneck for us.  The one thing that I really liked 
>> about using the wiki was that it had a very low barrier to entry for anyone 
>> interested in working with docs. Specifically we have direct control over 
>> the wiki permissions so it is very easy to grant privs.  Now this being said 
>> we have been fairly free (possible too free) in granting those privs.  
>> Having these docs in svn will require commit privs in that repo for release 
>> doc updates.
>> 
>> So my question is do we want to distinguish between a code and doc 
>> committer?  If not, what should the process be for making someone a doc 
>> committer?  Does it have to be a formal as it is for code committers?
>> 
>> Kevin.
>> 
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