Re: commit-policy
Roall Lein-Killi <[email protected]>
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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 > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > Mvh Killi -- Roall Lein-Killi; mob +47 97 66 00 72; fax +47 22 33 60 24 Kongens gate 14; Boks 805 Sentrum, 0104 Oslo; Norway http://www.conduct.no; mailto:[email protected] Conduct AS - Professional Open Source Red Hat and JBoss Authorized Integration Partner Atlassian Partner Pentaho Preferred Integration Partner