Hi, On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Fabian Christ <christ.fab...@googlemail.com> wrote: > ...I was wondering if it would be a good idea and technically possible to give > people commit access to the enhancement-engines dir in the SVN if they just > ask for it. These people would not become PMC members this way. They just > get access to a sub path of the repo to contribute their engine...
To make things simpler, we can also give those people full write access to the svn repository, i.e. vote them in early but only as committers, not PMC members right away. And expect them to refrain from modifying code that they don't know, except for trivial or obvious fixes - as we expect any committer to behave. The standard Apache way of working (commit vetoes if needed, etc.) is sufficient to prevent any serious problems IMO. The subversion project has a similar "partial committer" concept described at http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/roles.html - as the Stanbol community is currently much smaller, I don't think we even need to codify that right now, I'd suggest just being careful to vote people in early as committers so that they can work efficiently, and take our time before eventually making them PMC members. -Bertrand
