[mapserver-dev] Motion: Documentation commit access grants
Howard Butler
hobu.inc at gmail.com
Tue Feb 16 11:06:14 EST 2010
Docs commit access granted.
On Feb 15, 2010, at 9:56 AM, Eduin Carrillo wrote:
> Thanks everybody for your votes of confidence. I have read RFC7.1 and
> adhere to its terms.
>
> Eduin
>
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Howard Butler <hobu.inc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> With the multilingual documentation starting to pick up steam and our fancy new styling enticing more people to contribute ;), I'd like to change to a forgiveness model instead of a permission one for documentation commit access. I would propose that any PSC member can give commit access to the docs section of the website and notify mapserver-dev of that fact. The contributor would then reply to that email on mapserver-dev announcing their agreement to abide by RFC 7. The PSC can later motion to revoke this access if it is a problem for any reason.
>>
>> I want the documentation contribution to be lower friction than the source code contribution. The ticket/patch/commit model works well for code contribution, but I think it flounders for documentation because of the now increasing language variability and the contribution volume (many pages, lots of small edits, so on). We don't use a wiki (or Plone!) for primary documentation contribution, and we should do our best to allow people to easily contribute to the documentation. I want to enable people like Eduin to hit the ground running quickly without too much of our bureaucracy getting in the way.
>>
>> /me starts with a +1
>>
>> Howard
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