Hi all,

I've opened https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/pull/2068 if you're
interested in seeing this move forward.  Or if you feel strongly
against this of course.

Thanks,
Floris

On 16 November 2016 at 19:42, Floris Bruynooghe <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 15 November 2016 at 23:19, Oliver Bestwalter <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> will this be a "sorta kinda C4" then or do we want to implement the whole
>> thing as described in https://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:42/C4/ ?
>
> Probably not, upon re-reading this I'm not actually a massive fan of
> the document in it's entirety despite it having many good intentions,
> e.g. 2.3.1 (must use real names) ranks pretty high on my scale for a
> bad idea.  But I'm not going to dissect the whole thing here.
>
>> I ask because what you describe Floris is an interesting idea but I do not
>> see the parallel to C4 as that process clearly has maintainers who merge PRs
>> of others, which I think of as a Good Thing. I mean this part of the
>> protocol:
>>
>> A "Contributor" is a person who wishes to provide a patch, being a set of
>> commits that solve some clearly identified problem.
>> A "Maintainer" is a person who merges patches to the project. Maintainers
>> are not developers; their job is to enforce process.
>> Contributors SHALL NOT have commit access to the repository unless they are
>> also Maintainers.
>> Maintainers SHALL have commit access to the repository.
>
> So upon re-reading of C4.1 I'm just interested in formalising how one
> gets to be a Maintainer.  C4.1 itself leaves this pretty vague while
> I'd like to give Contributors a clear expectation.
>
>> I also like the whole Problem -> Solution idea as basis for  development of
>> the project (section 2.3).
>
> Sure, C4.1 has many good ideas quite a few which we already follow more or 
> less.
>
>> Giving everybody commit rights who successfully merged a PR is a different
>> idea that could be experimented with, but I would not call it C4.
>
> You're right, there is virtually no overlap between my proposal and
> C4.1.  It had been a very long time since I read C4.1 so honestly I
> didn't really remember what exactly it contained.
>
>
> Floris
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