On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 7:57 AM Joonas Niilola <juip...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Cross-posting to gentoo-dev and -project lists due to technical and > non-technical nature. Reply-to is set to -project. > > Once again new council has been elected: congratulations to the chosen > members! And once again many nominees expressed their wishes to see more > non-developer contributors to become official developers. Yet, only very > few people (if any) are interested in mentoring them. I get it, the > relationship between a mentor and their mentee is very intimate, and > mentoring takes a lot of time. While the Github PRs are helping us > increase the user contributions merged, perhaps it's distancing us from > creating stronger bonds with the contributors? But more about this topic > later. > > > 1st RFC: "Trusted contributor model" > > I'm proposing us to giving special commit access to our well-reputable > contributors (mostly proxied maintainers). They'd have access _only_ to > their maintained package in git-tree. To understand what I mean, check > git shortlog -s -n net-im/telegram-desktop-bin/ > git shortlog -s -n net-im/signal-desktop-bin/ > > There are few packages like these where I'd already trust the core > proxied maintainer to commit at their will. It's as ajak said during the > council election; _We_ are the bottleneck currently reviewing and > _testing_ contributions, and with these two examples above, 99 % of time > everything's in condition and we just need to merge. Obviously if these > trusted contributors had to touch another package, or anything in > profiles/ (just basically anything outside their dedicated package > directory) they'd have to do a PR or .patch file to be merged by > official developers. And they'd still need a proxy Gentoo > developer/project listed in metadata, at least for now, to take > responsibility. > > On the technical side I'm not sure how to achieve this, but I know it > can be done. For example the sync-repos are compiled like this all the > time. If this proposal gains support, I'm willing to start figuring it > out more in-depth. > > AFAIK Fedora and Arch have somewhat similar systems in place already.
How would you suggest we track who has commit access, etc? The same way we do with developers, via a developer bug? I ask because I've noticed a lot of inactive proxied maintainers—one of which had been listed in metadata.xml for 6 years but had never committed to ::gentoo.
