Hello Douglas, On Mar 29, 2010, at 17:28 , Douglas E. Engert wrote: > Peter Koch wrote: >> >> I therefore changed the Wiki-tags and removed my entry from the Emeritus >> list. > > There are also developers who don't commit directly. I am one of them who > has submitted many changes and maintains the PIV card driver. I know :)
> But I send > in changes and Andreas is the one who usually commits them for me. The idea is to keep the gate-keeping tasks that stem from using SVN (and not using something like Git) minimal, until a change for Git/bzr/whatever happens. > I suspect that there are many other developers without commit privileges. Probably, but they are not documented anywhere. That's the reason for the Linux style MAINTAINERS file/page (yet to be done) - not everybody likes to have write access but keeping a tab on who's maintaing what would still be required. > I am not asking for commit privileges, IMHO keeping the list small is > a good idea. It is not necessary to keep the list small, it just needs to be maintained and regularly, based on documented and agreed upon criteria, either expanded or shortened. Having a *transparent* and open path for possible new contributors is IMHO a good thing. The goal is to get more people "to work with" the source code so that small things that people normally don't really care to prepare patches for (unless really necessary for their own task), would also be fixed. The odds are that if you stumble upon a spelling mistake in the docs you fix it on the spot if you can, rather than write about it to the mailing list. Couple it with the "moral obligation to keep a close eye on other commits" (FYI, there are ~30 people following opensc-commits) it should give a better result in the long run. FYI, for quite some time ohloh.com used to say the opposite: https://www.ohloh.net/p/7659/factoids/2829867 That's my intuition at least. Now, two questions. 1) Should the svn access criteria currently written on http://www.opensc-project.org/opensc/wiki/DevelopmentPolicy#Sourcecodeversioning be changed/improved/modified/removed? 2) Shall you be added to the SVN list or will you/me/somebody else create the skeleton for maintaining the maintainers list in the wiki or ? Martin, -- Martin Paljak http://martin.paljak.pri.ee +3725156495 _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
