Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise -- Proposal

[Marius Mauch]

On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 13:37:15 +0200
Markus Ullmann <jokey@g.o> wrote:

> Okay, so after figuring out open problems (thanks to kloeri and
> various other people for help here), we now have a resolution that
> should satisfy all involved parties here. This should adress
> dostrow's demands as well.
>
> 1) m-w / m-n requirement
>
> Only ebuilds that are reported to bugzie (valid bug#) and set to
> maintainer-wanted are allowed here as well as maintainer-needed ones.
>
> maintainer-needed are only allowed if they're removed from the tree
> and moved over to sunrise (and thus end up as maintainer-wanted
> again).

> 5) commit access to the overlay
>
> We implement two levels of commit rights:
>
> 1. As there are people out there who just want to maintain one app for
> start, the ebuild should reach a level that project devs are fine with
> it, then the user is given permission to commit on that single app. An
> automated check makes sure that he doesn't commit anywhere else. If
> violations arise, the access is revoked immediately.
>
> 2. People who contribute good ebuilds over a certain period of time
> are allowed upon decision by project devs to actively help
> maintaining the project. They'll be given commit rights for the
> project then. Same frome above applies here: If we notice any abuse,
> we revoke access immediately.

One more rule I'd like to see (should be obvious, but better to write
it down):

People who commit to a certain project/ebuild have to be on the CC
list of the relevant bug report(s) and any important commits should be
documented on the bugs (including the revision of/link to the commit).

Marius

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