So I've been poking around #drizzle to try and get a feeling for where this is going, but gotten no answers.
To this point, Drizzle has been governed by a tight core of developers in a very ad-hoc manner. I REALLY want that to continue. However its been relatively easy for anyone to join https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-developers. Currently there are 83 people in ~drizzle-developers. There are some troubling side effects of this. One is trunk commit access. I understand that its revision control, and we can roll back, however with so many people working on drizzle, it would be a shame if somebody's experiment got left in trunk on a release and ruined users' day. Another one is that all 83 of them have upload rights to the drizzle developer PPA, which Ubuntu users, and drizzle devs running Ubuntu, have been recommended to use since we removed drizzle from Ubuntu 10.10 (since we wanted people running more recent builds during the run-up to GA). Packages contain maintainer scripts, which run as root, so this brings to light "how well do we know these 83 people?" And maybe even more importantly, how comfortable are these 83 people with being entrusted with root access to all of the machines which subscribe to this PPA? According to launchpad's PPA download stats, there have been 90 downloads of this package: drizzle 2011.03.13-0ubuntu1~maverick0 I'd like to see a super-team of drizzle-developers (meaning drizzle-developers is a member of it) created, called drizzle-contributors. Most of the 83 in the current team would do well to be in that team only. If a contributor has demonstrated enough responsibility and care, they should be able to convince members of drizzle-developers that they are worthy of direct commit access and potential maintenance of the PPA. This super-team should be listed as the bug supervisor for drizzle, so that these members still can help with bug triage unhindered. It may even be possible to give them commit access to trunk, while keeping the released series branches owned by ~drizzle-developers. Thoughts? _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
