The reason we want to make a branch is because the changes to be made for the project are going to take the whole system apart. While a person or a group of people working on this project, they can commit it to the branch as they see fit. Once they are ready to commit the changes, then we can treat this branch as a big patch and take it through the same process as we do with patches. So the people working on the branch may or may not be committers.
Olga -----Original Message----- From: Doug Cutting [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 2:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: guideline on branching Olga Natkovich wrote: > Sure, that's fine. I was wondering if we could give permissions to a > particular brunch to somebody who is not a committer on the trunk. Yes, we could, but they'd still have to be an Apache committer, i.e., they'd have to be voted in by the PMC, file a CLA, get an account, etc. The branch will be eventually merged into trunk, so any committers there will become trunk committers anyway, right? So I don't see why we'd want to make the branch have a different community. Doug
