i am not confused:-) the entire incubator is a 'walled sandbox'. if projects can grant streamlined karma to sandbox branches to students, why not let podlings add committers?
On Aug 16, 2010, at 2:23 PM, Daniel Kulp <dk...@apache.org> wrote: > On Monday 16 August 2010 2:15:32 pm Luciano Resende wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Benson Margulies >> >> <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On committers there is a legal / procedural clarification called for. >>> Perhaps I'm just dense, but I got the strong impression from the recent >>> email at members@ that there was much more flexibility possible with >>> committer status than with releases -- that the iPMC could indeed make a >>> one-time, blanket, decision, that PPMC votes were sufficient for >>> committer status. To cite an example to support my position, I'm pretty >>> sure that GSOC students get commit privileges without formal PMC votes. >> >> Could you clarify on what do you mean by your statement around GSoC >> Students. GSoC students are and should be tread as any other >> contributors to a project and should earn committer karma via regular >> channels (discuss/vote/etc). > > I think he's confusing getting commit karma on a project and getting an > Apache > account that would allow commit to a sandbox or similar. For some projects, > we had the students submit a ICLA and we had accounts created that gave them > a > walled off sandbox to commit their work into rather than have them creating > forks or something off at GitHub or similar. They don't have project commit > karma to commit to trunk or branches or anything, just a very walled off > sandbox. > > > -- > Daniel Kulp > dk...@apache.org > http://dankulp.com/blog > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
