Milan Jurik wrote:
>>> Is 'core contributor'
>>> equally to 'commit privilege' in the repository?
>> No. There is no relationship at all between the two.
>>
>
> If I remember well, there was some "relationship" for it in ON gate
> community - the starting list was based on amount of contribution to ON
> gate in previous year, but it is some time ago. But yes, technically it
> is not about "commit privilege", because e.g. Jurgen Keil must go
> through sponsor-request.
Core contributor status is based on level of contribution and a
desire/willingness to participate in OpenSolaris governance/voting.
(Some people who contribute heavily have declined the status because
they don't want to vote.)
For the ON gate, commit privilege is based on access to the tools
and machines located behind the Sun firewall.
Not all ON core contributors have onnv commit privilege, and many people
have onnv commit privileges who are not core contributors.
Technically, under the current OpenSolaris constitution & website, there
can be no relationship as only Community Groups have Core Contributors and
only Project groups have source repositories that you can have commit
privileges to.
For gates whose master sources are on opensolaris.org, and for which no
tools behind the Sun firewall are needed (for instance Desktop & IPS),
each project sets its own policy for who gets commit access.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
