Worth checking - maybe "collaborators" are already excluded from the limit.
There is the parallel discussion on where CI will be run (quite orthogonal
from this discussion) - but one of the ideas it to classify "collaborators"
are "able to use ASF CI" but on the other hand - have more expectations
towards them - that they use labeling and comments and respond and close /
triage issues.

I think it could be **really** nice and cuts both ways. "Trust" means also
"But please also make sure to contribute in other ways".

J,


On Mon, Sep 21, 2026 at 10:51 PM Andrew Chang <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for pushing all of this, +1 on 7.
>
> To be clear, I am one of the group A contributors on Jarek's list, so I am
> not a neutral party here.
> Personally I would prefer a higher cap like 10... but I agree with Jarek's
> and Vincent's point that reviewing and helping others is what Airflow needs
> most right now.
>
> I ran some numbers for group A. Since drafts PR now count, here is what a
> cap of 7 means for the 9 people in that group:
> ("typical / busy" = open PRs at p50 / p90 over the days they had any PR
> open; "over 7" = share of those days above 7):
>
> - SameerMesiah97: typical 7, busy 10, over 7 on 43% of days
> - shivaam: typical 4, busy 7, over 7 on 9%
> - Vamsi-klu: typical 6, busy 13, over 7 on 45%
> - Andrushika: typical 7, busy 11, over 7 on 48%
> - yuseok89: typical 4, busy 10, over 7 on 18%
> - steveahnahn: typical 2, busy 10, over 7 on 20%
> - ColtenOuO: typical 5, busy 25, over 7 on 40%
> - stephen-bracken: typical 1, busy 6, over 7 on 1%
> - fat-catTW: typical 5, busy 17, over 7 on 42%
>
> With a cap of 7, about half of the group would be at or above the limit on
> roughly 4 days in 10.
> I am not raising this to argue for a higher number; completely fine
> starting at 7 for the reason above. Just want it on record, so that if we
> revisit the number later we have a baseline.
>
> On a related note, I like Henry's trust list idea (the bypass list Damian
> mentioned).
> The numbers above show that the number of good contributors (I assume that
> is group A mentioned above) that would need it is small, so the bypass list
> should be easy to maintain.
> If we agree it is the right direction, I can look into the .asf.yaml side.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
>

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