Hi all, I always said I would like to maintain the commit access for all ASF committer when leaving labs. I had a chat with Grant et al. about it @apacheCon.
The problematic part was pointed out to me that if we give everybody commit access we run the danger that asf committer to droids can make contra-productive committs without going to the issue filter. IMO we can state in our project guidelines (on which we need to work) that trivial changes can be committed without prior discussion but any deeper architectural changes have to be discussed in the dev list and best demonstrated with a patch attached to our issue tracker. If we agree we should add the ASF committer group to our trunk svn policy file. The other thing is becoming part of the PPMC. I am PMC member on different PMC's and every project has its own policy on this matter. I personally like best the one from forrest. Every committer is part of the PMC since IMO if you are committed to the project you should have as well a binding vote. I would like to propose the following policy around commit and PMC access here @droids: "All ASF committer have write access to the public svn source. We encourage all ASF committers to fix trivial bugs (like typos, etc.) without prior consultation. However bigger changes (like architecture changes and major code rewrites) HAVE TO be discussed prior on the dev list and best demonstrated with a patch attached to our issue tracker. Every ASF committer that has demonstrated his/her commitment to droids through the normal meritocracy policy we have on the ASF will be voted in from all active PMC members. New droids developer (non-ASF committers) are need to demonstrate his/her commitment through the normal meritocracy policy we have on the ASF. If they get voted in as committer their should as well become part of the PMC since if they are committed to the project they should have as well a binding vote." WDYT? salu2 -- Thorsten Scherler <thorsten.at.apache.org> Open Source Java <consulting, training and solutions> Sociedad Andaluza para el Desarrollo de la Sociedad de la Información, S.A.U. (SADESI)
