Re: commit-policy

Roall Lein-Killi <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.scarab.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Sounds like GIT would be the solution. What you are suggesting is the  
way GIT works
(more or less).

But hey, I don't care so don't bother start flaming. :-)

Killi

On 6. mars. 2008, at 15.26, Völker Ronny wrote:

> Jorge Uriarte Aretxaga  wrote.
>> I'm crossposting to dev, because the voting should be public :-)
>
> I agree with that.
> I just wanted to respect the policy of Scarab - which I thought was  
> voting about new committers in the committers-list.
>
> Because we are right now talking about this topic, how about  
> relaxing the commit-policy:
>
> We could grant commit-access to everyone who requests it.
> Interested newcomers would get their own branch, they can  
> immediately commit to.
> First a newcomer would only commit into his own branch and a core- 
> committer would decide when to merge into the trunk.
> After some of his contributions have made it into the trunk the  
> newcomer himself would become a core-committer.
>
> With this policy the contributions of  newcomers would immediately  
> be under version control.
> This is much more convenient for the newcomers as well as the core- 
> committers who are reviewing the contributions.
>
> I don't think that there is a great danger of abuse and even then we  
> have svn for rescue.
>
> As someone stated, Scarab is a low-profile project. That's why the  
> bigger challenge is to attract contributors, instead of preventing  
> them from polluting the product with their personal pet-features (as  
> it may be the case in high-profile projects like the Linux-kernel).
>
> Ronny
>
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