On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:31 PM, John Kinsella <j...@stratosec.co> wrote: > On May 15, 2012, at 9:21 PM, David Nalley wrote: >> This is a discussion still - no need to move it away from this list IMO. >> >> John - thanks for writing this up. >> >> So there's a mixture of our own terminology and ASF terminology - and >> I propose that we start with a lexicon, and here's what I'd suggest: >> >> Contributors - people who contribute in one way or another to the project >> Committers - people who have commit access to the project's repo(s) >> Maintainers - volunteers from the pool of committers who have stepped >> forward to shepherd a single module. This is not a position of >> authority - but rather one of responsibility - to ensure coding >> standards are met, that accepted patches don't break things, etc. > > Is this statement valid? > > "In general, maintainers only have commit rights on the module for which they > are responsible" > > Is CS going to manage commit rights at this level of granularity? > >
I would say no - committers have commit privs on the repo - we assume that anyone who is elected as a committer is sane and not malicious, and thus we trust them.
