[Qgis-psc] access for Alex Bruy

[Maxim Dubinin]

I understand your concern, but given number of patches Alex has
submitted it simply gets a little inefficient to wait for the review
of each one of them (Searching trac for 'alexbruy patch' results in 50
hits). I can simply imagine that only merging most of our plugins with
fTools will further increase these metrics considerably.

I also think that introducing 'assistant maintainer' status or alike would
help. However, I believe, that Alex's situation is somewhat unique
(I'd say unfortunately, yet), usually devs from outside stop at submitting
a couple of patches. 

It  should  also  be  taken  into consideration, that it is not simply
'Alex being good developer' (which he undoubtedly is), there is strong
and  numerous  community behind Alex's back that helps him and at some
point wants quicker responses to submitted bugs, that he successfully
fixes.

Maxim

Вы писали 22 июля 2010 г., 6:59:41:

MH> Hi all

MH> I think this is a good opportunity to discuss our svn commit access policy.
MH> In the past, I blocked some requests for commit access telling that svn
MH> commits should be made by the code maintainers 
MH> (http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Project_Organigram#Code_Maintainers) and other code
MH> contributors should send patches to the maintainers.

MH> For Alexander, this would mean to send patches to the maintainers of GDALTools
MH> (Giuseppe) and fTools (Carson). Note: this would absolutely not reduce the
MH> merits of Alexander as a contributor.

MH> But I think we didn't really discuss this on the psc-list.
MH> So question: is this 'maintainers only' commit policy something you like or
MH> should we handle commit access such that all active contributors receive
MH> commit access? (In that case, we would give commit access also to Anne who
MH> made a similar request recently).

MH> I could also imagine in-between solutions such as co-maintainers (in cases
MH> where it is more convenient for a code maintainer to share work).

MH> What is your opinion?



MH> Regards,
MH> Marco



MH> Am Mittwoch, 21. Juli 2010, um 18.08:28 schrieb Maxim Dubinin:
>> Hi PCS,
>> 
>> I'm not on PCS, but I've been told that I still can vouch for
>> Alexander Bruy to be given maintainer status (on basis
>> of support for GDALTools & fTools). You had multiple occasions to
>> review his code as patches and plugins and I hope more is coming.
>> 
>> Maxim
>> 
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