>
>
>>> 1. What should be the role/responsibilities of those with commit access?
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   - code review submitted patches to provide feedback
>>
>
> So, I "disagree" on this. I think it should be the whole community.
> Everyone who has a stake in Quagga should try help to review.
>
> Unless "maintainers" == "whole community", it can't scale otherwise.
>

Agreed that everyone should help but if a non-maintainer acks a patch does
a maintainer commit it without also reviewing it?


  - coordinate the release schedule
>>   - help contributors of quagga coordinate on feature development to avoid
>>   wasting cycles where two groups develop the same feature (ospf
>> unnumbered
>>   comes to mind)
>>
>
> Again, I think contributors and the wider community should feel
> responsible for this, for scaling reasons.
>
>   - commit patches
>>
>
>   - help build the community of users and developers
>>
>
> Ditto, wider involvement is better here too.
>
> +1 to Martin's suggestion of letting the community decide (everyone gets a
>> vote, not just the maintainers). I do not think it needs to be super
>> formal.  If someone thinks John/Jane Doe should be maintainer they send an
>> email to quagga-dev suggesting so and let the discussion go from there.
>>
>
> One of my concerns is to avoid the appearances of cliques, of especially
> privileged groups (ironic perhaps coming from me, but hey). Some people are
> shy, and aren't going to volunteer themselves. Some people are actively
> turned off by the suggestion of cliques. Others outside potentially may
> feel less inclined to participate (reviewing esp), because it may seem it
> isn't their place.
>

I think that is something that we address if it becomes an issue.

Daniel
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