[Notes] [Git][BuildGrid/buildgrid][laurence/update-policies] Update CONTRIBUTING.rst



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Laurence Urhegyi pushed to branch laurence/update-policies at BuildGrid / buildgrid

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  • CONTRIBUTING.rst
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     Committer access
    
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     ----------------
    
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    -In the beginning of the project, we handed out commit access to anyone who had 
    
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    -successfully landed a single patch to the code base. We then saw the policy in 
    
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    -place over at the `Subversion`_ project and thought this was more sensible, so 
    
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    -we decided to employ a very similar - although more light-weight - policy.  
    
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     Committers in the BuildGrid project are those folks to whom the right to 
    
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     directly commit changes to our version controlled resources has been granted. 
    
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    -The project is meritocratic, which means (among other things) that project 
    
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    -governance is handled by those who do the work. While every contribution is 
    
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    +While every contribution is 
    
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     valued regardless of its source, not every person who contributes code to the 
    
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     project will earn commit access. The `COMMITTERS`_ file lists all committers.
    
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     which was an unambiguous improvement to the code. (Of course, this does not mean the 
    
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     project needs a bunch of very trivial patches whose only purpose is to gain commit 
    
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     access; knowing what's worth a patch post and what's not is part of showing good 
    
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    -judgement :-) .)
    
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    +judgement.)
    
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     When submitting a merge request, please obtain a review from another committer 
    
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     who is familiar with the area of the code base which the branch effects. Asking on 
    



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