[QGIS-Developer] qgis/QGIS repo: revoking commit rights on "dormant" contributors

[Alessandro Pasotti]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2026 at 11:16 AM DelazJ <delazj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Alessandro,
>
> What do you mean by:
> > The problem is that commit rights are currently bound to voting rights.
>
> How voting (I assume at AGM, for grants and so on, thus for the whole project) is related to committer status in a given repo?

See #4 at:
https://www.qgis.org/community/foundation/charter/#2-definitions
and first bullet at :
https://www.qgis.org/community/foundation/charter/#54-election-and-eligibility-of-qgis-community-voting-members


>
> Thanks,
> Harrissou
>
>
> Le 12 octobre 2026 10:30:11 GMT+02:00, Alessandro Pasotti via QGIS-Developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> a écrit :
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> at the security meeting in LAAX we talked about how to reduce the
>> vulnerabilities and decided that we should keep the number of people
>> that have commit rights to qgis/QGIS repo at the minimum.
>>
>> There are many people that haven't committed anything for years, and
>> they do not need to have commit rights right now.
>>
>> The problem is that commit rights are currently bound to voting rights.
>>
>> Before I draft a QEP I'd like to hear from you if you think this is a good idea:
>>
>> - create a github "fake" core committers repository with just a README inside
>> - create a "QGIS Committers" team that has commit rights in the "fake" repo
>> - put every contributor that currently have commit rights in any of
>> the qgis org repositories into the "QGIS Committers" team
>> - for all repositories except the "fake" one: revoke commit rights to
>> all developers that haven't committed anything in the last 6 months
>>
>> Note: committers that need their commit rights back will just need to
>> ask to get them back.
>>
>> This way we don't need to change the statute of the QGIS association
>> (and wait for the next AGM).
>>
>>


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