Re: Project Culture and Commit Rights

2013-01-11 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: ...There's a weaker form of this idea that looks at two populations of potential contributors: the members of the Apache Software Foundation (members@) and all of the people who have been granted commit rights on all

Re: Project Culture and Commit Rights

2013-01-11 Thread Joe Schaefer
suggestions to modernize, even if we always allow themselves the option of declining to participate. From: Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org To: dev@community.apache.org Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 3:43 AM Subject: Re: Project Culture and Commit Rights

Re: Project Culture and Commit Rights

2013-01-10 Thread Thomas Koch
Benson Margulies: Anyone can read http://www.apache.org/dev/open-access-svn.html to see a summary of the central idea that started this discussion: that the default authorization scheme for Subversion at Apache should be to grant technical permission to commit to all committers across the

Re: Project Culture and Commit Rights

2013-01-10 Thread Benson Margulies
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Thomas Koch tho...@koch.ro wrote: Benson Margulies: Anyone can read http://www.apache.org/dev/open-access-svn.html to see a summary of the central idea that started this discussion: that the default authorization scheme for Subversion at Apache should be to

Re: Project Culture and Commit Rights

2013-01-10 Thread Jed Smith
There is nothing wrong with Subversion except for preference and difficulty in making branches. I disagree that Benson's topic is directly influenced by such a lower-rung choice as a version control system. The same discussion would be necessary if Apache were completely on Git; who can push

RE: Project Culture and Commit Rights

2013-01-10 Thread Ross Gardler
-Original Message- From: Jed Smith [mailto:j...@jedsmith.org] Sent: 10 January 2013 21:27 Subject: Re: Project Culture and Commit Rights ... The tool isn't the issue here, and I disagree with any attempt to reframe it that way. +1 Ross

Re: Project Culture and Commit Rights

2013-01-06 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 10:20 AM, janI j...@apache.org wrote: On 5 January 2013 19:14, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: Mature, popular projects tend to receive more contributions than they can handle; competent review becomes the scarce resource. I question whether an RTC project

Project Culture and Commit Rights

2013-01-05 Thread Benson Margulies
Over the last several weeks, there has been a length discussion amongst Apache Foundation members about how the Foundation manages access to source control, with a focus on Subversion. Anyone can read http://www.apache.org/dev/open-access-svn.html to see a summary of the central idea that started

Re: Project Culture and Commit Rights

2013-01-05 Thread Benson Margulies
ICLAs are still an absolute requirement. So, imagine an Apache project with a policy like: Commit rights are granted on request to people with an Apache ICLA on file ... On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Benson Margulies