I like the idea of a maintenance group.

stef

On May 20, 2010, at 11:46 PM, Sean P. DeNigris wrote:

> 
> 
> Yanni Chiu wrote:
>> 
>> It's really up to each project to make it easy/hard to accept 
>> contributions. I don't see what outsiders could do to change that, other 
>> than to ask to become an insider.
>> 
> 
> Ah, now I see what you're saying.  I actually agree.  My idea is to
> encourage and default to w/r, not impose it.  I assume that many projects
> are read-only, not because of a desire of the maintainer, but just because
> that's the default in SqS.  Why not default to r/w, making life easier for
> the community, and admins can select read-only if they want.
> 
> 
> Yanni Chiu wrote:
>> 
>> An idea comes to mind though. Maybe a "maintenance" group could be 
>> created. Members of the maintenance group would have write permissions 
>> to all projects. They would only submit code to make things work on 
>> different platforms, but would not wildly re-factor, change the design, 
>> add features, etc. That way, the admin/dev's would still maintain 
>> "control" of their project, but get help from the maintenance crew.
>> 
> 
> Sounds interesting.
> 
> Sean
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