+1

Cameron Shorter wrote:
> Further to this thread,
> I'd like to add one more Lisasoft developer, Roald de Witt, to extend 
> Mapbuilder in our CGDI project (under my guidance).
>
> To date, our code is in
>  https://svn.codehaus.org/mapbuilder/sandbox/lisasoft/cgdiip/mapbuilder
>
> Like our other Lisasoft developers, Roald is a competent software developer.
> Could you please vote to give Roald commit access to the mapbuilder 
> repository:
> +1
>
> Cameron Shorter wrote:
>   
>> mapbuilder-developers,
>> Lisasoft has won some work to extend Mapbuilder to support a Canadian 
>> Geographic Data Infrastructure Pilot project, and to add KML support 
>> as part of the OGC's OWS5 testbed.
>>
>> I have 3 developers from Lisasoft working on this under my technical 
>> guidance:
>> Eric Lam,
>> Martin Vivian,
>> Jim Groffen.
>>
>> What I would like to do is give these developers access to the 
>> Mapbuilder sandbox directory to do their development, eventually 
>> merging back to the trunk when the code is reviewed and stable.
>>
>> If we were to give these developers access to the mapbuilder 
>> repository immediately, it would break with usual convention of 
>> getting a developer to submit patches first, then being invited to 
>> contribute.
>> However, I think that we starting to see new work processes develop as 
>> people are getting commercial contracts to extend Mapbuilder. (I think 
>> of Jean-Sebastian under Olivier's guidance as another example).
>> Having a developer commit directly to the repository rather than 
>> applying patches is a more efficient way of getting code submitted.
>>
>> So I'd like to propose that a new developer can be fast tracked to 
>> "committer" status IF an existing respected developer (or PSC member?) 
>> volunteers to vouch for the new develop's code.
>> Ie, the Existing developer needs to agree to review the new developers 
>> code before it is committed back into the Mapbuilder trunk or main 
>> development branches.
>>
>> +1
>>
>>     
>
>
>   




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