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Date:      Sun, 18 Nov 2001 19:56:52 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>
To:        Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, developers@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org, core@FreeBSD.org, portmgr@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Portmgr duties expand
Message-ID:  <20011118175651.GB2600@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <688520000.1006087432@lobster.originative.co.uk>
References:  <200111180201.fAI21j757358@harmony.village.org> <688520000.1006087432@lobster.originative.co.uk>

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On 2001-11-18 12:43:52, Paul Richards wrote:
> --On Saturday, November 17, 2001 19:01:45 -0700 Warner Losh
> <imp@harmony.village.org> wrote:
> >
> > Core is pleased to announce that as of Tuesday, November 11, we've
> > delegated the maintenance of the ports tree to the portsmgr team.
> > They have been maintaining the infrastructure make system for a while
> > now.  To that list, we've added the ability to approve ports
> > committers; to resolve disputes within the ports tree; and to generally
> > manage the ports tree as appropriate.
>
> Will committers approved by the postmgr team be restricted to working in
> the ports tree or will they have free reign as other committers do?
>
> What's the process for becoming a src or docs committer if you were
> originally approved by portsmgr and not by core?

I think that this boils down to the first question.  Does a doc committer
(like me) commit freely to the other parts of the tree?  The answer is,
unless I'm mistaken, `no, he goes through the usual test, review, diff,
test again, review again' cycle that everyone else uses.

If we need a formal procedure for 'expanding horizons', that will have to
be similar to the way a contributor, who shows increasing interest and
expertise in parts of the tree, becomes a committer.  A mentor with
experience to the relevant parts of the tree be assigned for some time, and
take care of the new areas a committer is interested in.


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