Hi, On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Luciano Resende <luckbr1...@gmail.com> wrote: > It looks like various Apache projects are voting GSoC students as > "partial committers". As Apache does not have a formal process for > handling this type of account requests, regular accounts are created > for these students, with an Apache e-mail alias, and access is given > to general committer areas in SVN (e.g. committer area in svn, etc) > and then respective PMCs provides write access to particular areas in > SVN, such as a sandbox or a collaboration area. If the student fails > the GSoC programm, or is not elected as regular committer during or > after the program, there is no process for disabling/deleting these > accounts. This is very problematic and can cause multiple issues....
I'd say those are temporary accounts rather than partial, and from the GSoC point of view I think it's good to have them. As you say the issue is making sure those accounts are disabled once GSoC ends, as we would do when a trainee leaves you company. One suggestion would be to add those accounts to a special LDAP group named "trainee" or something. Once GSoC ends, someone (GSoC admins or comdev PMC) would need to request infra to disable all of them. If a student is voted in as a committer in the meantime, their PMC chair would just remove them from the "trainee" group. -Bertrand
