On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 19:52:59 -0300 Nelson Castillo <[email protected]> said:
after having run e for years... i'll drop my advice here. it's simple. trust people. let people send patches - i they send more than a few over a short period, offer them commit access. people who ask for commit access get it. if people commit and screw the kernel they of course get warnings and public beat-downs. everyone knows who commits what and when - have a git commits list that sends emails on every commit with the diff's. people who cause too much trouble simply have their commit access revoked and are of course on a blacklist. this happens incredibly rarely, so it' better to ask for forgiveness than seek permission. of course this requires being willing to give up direct control. you play for of a parent-figure just watching the kids play and do heir thing - guiding every now and again and spanking when they really do go astray. it reduces overhead significantly. > Hello there. > > As announced by Sean Moss-Pultz in the Community List the GTA02 future > will depend on the community. > > I think this is already the case on the kernel side thus things will > not change much here (things already changed in March). All the > involved kernel experts are community members now anyway. In a > previous conversation with Werner we talked about opening the process > even more by not having a (single) maintainer and instead allowing > more people to commit. > > Now the question is how to do it. > > We know this will be volunteer work thus we need to find people who: > > - Are willing to do it > - Are willing to check/test patches before committing them > > It would be better if this access was given to people who have > submitted correct patches in the past or who send nice patches in the > future. I will be around with lots of time for about three weeks thus > I can help with tasks. I think we can make a smooth transition form > the centralized OM model to a more open one with no problems. > > Cheers, > Nelson.- > > PS: See: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2009-June/048980.html > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected]
