I filed 6600900 contributor grant should not be required to use cr.opensolaris.org
Thanks, Nick Nicholas Solter wrote: > Hi Dan, > > Dan Price wrote: >> On Tue 10 Jul 2007 at 02:22PM, Nicholas Solter wrote: >>> Dan, >>> >>> Thanks for the background. The issue I have with requiring >>> contributor status is that it leaves out folks who want to start >>> contributing but haven't "proved" themselves yet. Alternatively, it >>> suggests that the first time someone wants to make a code change he >>> or she should be granted contributor status. Is either of those >>> really what we want? >> >> That's not true: cr.opensolaris.org is not part of any mandated process. >> Therefore it is not a barrier to contribution. It's available for the >> convenience of contributors, and I maintain it in my spare time. > > I understand that it's not required, but it's a useful tool. It seems to > me that we should be making it as easy as possible for new folks to > start contributing, which I think would include making tools available > to them. Perhaps this hasn't been much of a problem so far, but if we > really want to grow the community and encourage contributions from folks > outside Sun, we need to make the barriers to entry as low as possible. > This tool is a great step in that direction, and I really appreciate all > the effort you've put into it. I'm just trying to figure out how it can > be even more useful. And let me clarify that I'm not asking you to do > this work. If and when we decide to make any changes, I'm happy to help > out and hopefully other folks will as well. If it's an "official" part > of opensolaris, it shouldn't be only your responsibility to make all the > modifications random folks like me request :-) > >> >>> Couldn't we have a more light-weight anti-spammer mechanism? Perhaps >>> we could just keep an "approved" list of people allowed to use the >>> tool, and give all core contributors the ability to add folks to the >>> list. That way, someone need only convince a core contributor that he >>> or she is for real instead of going through the whole contributor >>> grant process. >> >> The whole point of the grant system is to unlock the ability to do >> various things. It seems incredibly duplicative to invent a new >> "whitelist" of people who get to do various things. And should I go >> write a web application to manage that list? > > Yeah, it's not the best solution. But I also don't think it makes sense > to use the contributor list just because it's there, even if it's not > the right fit. Is allowing all members access to the tool on the table > at all? How much of a problem do you think we'd face with abuse of the > privilege? > >> >> I'd rather you advocate for streamlining (from a technology perspective) >> the distribution of contributor grants. > > Can you explain a bit more about this streamlining? What problems do you > see now in the process? > > Thanks, > Nick > >> >> -dp >> > -- Nicholas Solter, Solaris Cluster Development http://blogs.sun.com/nsolter _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
