[Qgis-psc] access for Alex Bruy

[Marco Hugentobler]

Hi all

My concern was not about Alex at all. My point was that, in the PSC, it would 
be good to have a clearer policy when to give svn write access (just to be 
fair to everyone). Especially for future requests from other developers.

Maybe something to discuss at the next hackfest. Until then, +1 from me to svn 
access for Alex (I assume he coordinates his changes well with the maintainers 
of f-tools and GDAL tools).

Regards,
Marco








Am Freitag, 23. Juli 2010, um 03.44:08 schrieb 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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