Guide/notes/document sponsorship
Ruediger Landmann
r.landmann at redhat.com
Wed May 19 01:55:51 UTC 2010
On 05/19/2010 11:07 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:42:27AM -0400, Eric Sparks Christensen wrote:
>
>> The question was raised about those contributors that work with the Docs
>> Project, that don't need access to the repos, but are working with the
>> Project. In FAS they would just have the cla_done group. There are
>> activities within Fedora that require cla_done + one group in order for
>> the contributor to participate. These activities include voting,
>> e-mail, and others. It was confirmed by Nick (NB) that removing the
>> group from your FAS would remove those activities as well.
>>
> Given that removal from that one's CLA+1 group removes functionality,
> I can live with the three-group approach. :-) I still believe we need
> to have a policy of many sponsors -- and promoting contributors to
> sponsors when they show they're willing to collaborate -- to make sure
> new contributors can always get approvals easily, and in turn work
> with us.
>
Yeah, Stickster's arguments in the meeting last week won me over to the
two-group model, but the reduced functionality pointed out by nb is a
dealbreaker; I think we need to keep the entry-level group.
Cheers
Rudi
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