On Apr 22, 2009, at 11:30 AM, Behrang Dadsetan wrote: > Hi! > > After 8-9 years of admiring Zope and using it now and then, I > finally got myself to contribute to the grok project. I hope to > contribute even more in the near and mid-term future. > > We seem to have an issue with the documentation for becoming an SVN > Contributor. Here are the steps I followed and the dead-end I got to. > > Following diverse people's advice, I followed the instructions from > http://www.zope.org/DevHome/Subversion/ImpatientPeoplesGuideToRequestingCommitPrivileges > which basically points to > http://docs.zope.org/developer/becoming-a-contributor.html > > I filled out the form, scanned it and mailed the scan to > foundation-i...@zope.org as mentioned in the contact details of the > foundation on the 18th of April. Shortly afterwards, I received an > automated response: > Subject: Your message to Foundation-Info awaits moderator approval > [snip] > The reason it is being held: > > Message body is too big: 1817623 bytes with a limit of 40 KB > [snip] > > After this was a lengthy silence. So I followed the next step from > becoming-a-contributor.html which says to nag Jim Fulton. > > The problem is Jim never heard of this process and never saw my > initial request. He was suprised the DevHome/ImpatientPeopleGuide.. > was modified. > > Any suggestions what the new process should be? Is the Zope foundation > now responsible for giving SVN Write access now that the form is about > sharing copyright with the Foundation? If so, who can one nag within > the Zope Foundation? > > We need to update the documentation of this procedure once we > figured it out :)
Or restore the old documentation until the new process is in place. Jim -- Jim Fulton Zope Corporation _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )