I understand compeltely. that's how i got (earned?) my wings. Let's make this explicit about what we are looking for from a newbie :)
+1 to opening up repo. thanks, dims On 9/2/05, Erik Abele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 02.09.2005, at 14:45, Davanum Srinivas wrote: > > > Sal and Ian from HP expressed interest on [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=webservices- > > general&m=111901932102075&w=2 > > Quoting: "What are the steps for me to get set up w/ admin > rights for SVN? Once I get set up, I'll read up on how to do basic SVN > admin tasks, and then try to knock out some of the easier issues in > JIRA." > > > I gave them the pointers: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=webservices- > > general&m=111901966108282&w=2 > > Quoting: "...There are various readme's in infrastructure SVN. ... In > your intro > email, specifically mention that you are on the WS-PMC, want to help > with mailing lists and SVN and that you can start with the pending > tasks of migrating stuff off of incubator." > > Dims, come on - this is not the way the ASF works. What would you do > if someone came to one of the WS dev-lists and asked: "Okay, I'm > willing to help, give me committership and I'll see where I can help > out with some commits..." - huh? > > Isn't it rather in the line of: "Hey, I've found a problem and worked > out a solution, here it is (e.g. a patch), can we integrate that?" - > same with infra: "hey, i found some SVN issues in Jira. I've set up a > test repo in my homedir and imported their CVS module, looks good so > far. Can we integrate that with the live repo and shut down the CVS > module after the developers confirmed that everything is fine?" > > That's the difference, you know ;-) > > > They started a thread in infra@ mailing list: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > See the end of the thread, they asked for read-only access to infra > > stuff to read the FAQ and README's: > > > > Then they attempted to ask on #asfinfra for the same permissions to > > read material and get to know stuff. That's where they were given the > > brush off. > > There is no real documentation in the infra repo regarding this. It's > all public: http://apache.org/dev/cvs2svn.html - what do they need to > resolve these JIRA issues? Can they look at them, think about them > and then come up with specific requests? > > For example: "Someone is asking for karma for XXX in JIRA; from > reading the list and the website, I guess he will have to be added to > the file minotaur:/x1/svn/asf-authorization but I don't have karma to > do this by myself so here is a patch..." - do that and I promise > you'll be in in the near future :) > > > Sigh! the SVN module http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/infrastructure/ > > should be at least viewable by committers if you want/expect them to > > help. > > Sigh! I don't understand why this repository is so important before > opening up a terminal, ssh'ing to minotaur.apache.org, sitting down > and looking around?!? That's a mystery to me but so be it and afaiac > I'd be fine with opening it up since we scrubbed every bit of > sensitive information in there some time ago... > > Cheers, > Erik > > > -- Davanum Srinivas : http://wso2.com/ - Oxygenating The Web Service Platform --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
