Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 04:12:06 -0500 (EST) From: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> To: nik@FreeBSD.org, <core@FreeBSD.org>, <www@FreeBSD.org> Cc: nectar@FreeBSD.org Subject: new CVSROOT files and me Message-ID: <20030228025547.O72989-100000@blues.jpj.net> In-Reply-To: <1044494623.91491.88.camel@zaphod.softweyr.com>
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Hello, I am in a similar situation to that described in the appended text. I am a restricted committer who would like to keep my ability to make changes to the doc, ports, src, and www repositories. I was approved by Satoshi Asami as a ports-only committer in September or October of 2000. Since then, I've mostly created new ports on my own. However, on a few occasions I've added the work of other contributors. When accepting the work of new contributors, it's customary to add their names to the doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/article.sgml file. I'm assuming that I'll need to be listed in access.doc to do this. On a few occasions I've used the privileges described in the "Commit Bit Types" section of the Committers' Guide at <URL:http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/committer.types.html>. In particular, I've added some listings to the "FreeBSD in the Press" file, doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/article.sgml at the invitation of Murray Stokely and Joseph Koshy, after submitting several as PRs. Yes, I did break the WWW build once. If I'm not mistaken, being listed in access.doc would permit me to continue doing so. ;-) Also, I've helped the Security Officer on a few occasions by MFCing security-related changes, after getting review or approval from security-team@ or security-officer@ (on one occasion I committed thinking that approval from a member of security-team was sufficient, but should have gotten it from the Security Officer instead--no one remarked upon my error though). Changes needed to be made to old FreeBSD branches and other people hadn't gotten around to making them. I was admitted into the Security Officer Team last June, and have primarily worked with ports, but would like to still be able to help with src/ things once in awhile. I'd like to be allowed in access.src in order to keep that privilege. I apologize if I've missed an announcement to the developers' lists. The last mail I recieved on those was on the 10th and I don't know where to find the archives on hub.FreeBSD.org (wish it were in /etc/motd there). -- Trevor Johnson Wes Peters wrote in <1044494623.91491.88.camel@zaphod.softweyr.com>: > On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 07:04, Udo Erdelhoff wrote: > > Hi Giorgos, > > On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 04:46:57AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > It is, and I meant to ask about manpages. Do I need to put myself in > > > CVSROOT/access too, in order to be able to make changes to src/*.[0-9] > > > files? If yes, my commit bit being doc-only, how do we differentiate > > > between committers in CVSROOT/access who *are* src committers and > > > committers in CVSROOT/access who are just there for manpage/doc stuff. > > > > the same applies (with a vengance) to the translation teams working > > on the release notes. There is ONE guy with a "full" commit bit > > among the people who work on the German translations. Of course, > > he is more or less MIA right now due to real life stress. > > > > Which leaves me (as the guy who does the translation) with exactly > > four options: > > > > a) just grab src access and get reamed for it > > Whoa, no, hold on there. Nobody's going to ream you for putting > yourself in the access file for the src archives so you can work > on man pages. The idea is that if you work on ONLY ports, or ONLY > www pages and don't need all those commit messages flowing in, you > don't have to see them. > > > b) apply to core for src access even though I have absolutely no track > > record for working on anything except documentation > > Let's see, can we find a core team member who says it's OK for you to > commit work to man pages? > > Oh, wait a minute, *I'm* a core team member. Handy, that. > > Udo: it's OK for you to have src access and to commit man pages. > > > c) find somebody who is willing and able(!) to review my patches [trimmed--Trevor] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-www" in the body of the message
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