Re: [Tracker] Using gnome.org infrastructure for tracker

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Jon Phillips wrote:
> > "We do request that applicants have submitted a reasonable number of 
> > patches to an existing maintainer, or bugzilla reports before they 
> > request direct commit access."
> >
> > Im not sure how many is reasonable but its probably more than one or two?
> >
> > shall we say 3 big ones or 6 medium ones or 12 smallish/trivial ones
>
> I think we should lower this and make it more reasonable until we get
> more contributors. I think we should make it similar to how its setup in
> inkscape.org. We should require 2 patches and then support an
> application for access to CVS. This makes it simpler for wanna-be
> contributors and also will require us to work with patch submitters to
> meet the standard for the codebase.
>
> This works super awesome for several of my projects and highly support
> this...
>
> > (anybody who feels they already qualify and want cvs write access then 
> > let me know)
>
> I need to practice what I preach and submit 2 patches ;)

well okay 2 big patches (or 4 medium, 6 small) will get you a cvs account.

Hopefully thats reasonable enough so I wont get me in trouble with the 
gnome accounts team :)


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