On 04.04.2008 19:13, Colin Walters wrote:
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Michael Schwendt
<mschwendt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> As I've pointed out, commit access is restricted for many many many
> packages. And yes, where I could commit I've done that (albeit without
> requesting a build but with a good comment), and I haven't had a single
> maintainer yell at me. ;)
Thoughts:
* Create a group "janitors" in the FAS that has global commit access
* Anyone who's had a Fedora account (for example) > 6mo can request
janitor access
* The janitor access request is sent to the list of existing janitors
and voted on
* A janitor is only supposed to commit "cleanups", which is a fuzzy
definition but if
for example you're patching the upstream source it's probably going too far
"Packaging Ninja Squad" might be a sexier name.
Just FYI (really just FYI, it not meant to shoot this discussion down or
something like that), I suppose this is at least the fourth or fifth
time such a idea/concept comes up in the past two years (likely it
happened even more often). It has been discussed a lot and into detail,
just was never realized due to technical and political hurdles (and
nobody willing to work his way through them).
Cu
knurd