Hi, > I am writing a master thesis about open source development processes and > one of my analysis objects are processes of the FreeBSD project. The > FreeBSD documentation (handbook, articles) is a great source of > information, but there are some points missing in the documentation I > consider important. > > I would like know more on the following items: > > 1. Who makes the decision, who is authorized and who is responsible for > accepting (adding) new commiters?
I don't know exactly how the decision about new committers is made, but here is the anwser for the other parts of your questions. http://www.freebsd.org/internal/new-account.html I am sure some of the new committers will be glad to tell you how the became one: http://www.freebsd.org/news/newsflash.html#2003August15:0 I can it works that way: you write lots of usefull patches and send them to the lists or to the PR database, until somebody who is already a FreeBSD committer suggests you to become one. > 2. Who makes the decision, who is authorized and who is responsible for > releasing (deleting) existing commiters (whatever reason)? This is described here: http://www.freebsd.org/internal/expire-bits.html Good luck with your thesis, Simon
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