Guide/notes/document sponsorship

[Nick Bebout]

That sounds fine to me.  Although with this idea, we might want a
gitdocs-web group too, at the moment it requires the docs group.

Nick

> During the Docs meeting tonight the issue of moving all documents
> under a single fas group to grant access came up.
>
> jjmcd brought up several issues - and I think they are worth
> considering. More importantly he brought up a potential solution, that
> I also think is worth considering. I'd encourage you to read through
> the log if you weren't there.
>
> Specifically as downsides to the proposal he enumerated the following:
> * there is currently a progression from member -> committer ->
> publisher - which we'd largely lose.
> * currently new members tend to be 'frightened' by getting their first
> document commit access, and giving it all in one fell swoop might
> discourage contributors. (a new contributor echoed that he would feel
> this way)
>
> We discussed at length and said that the problems we were trying to solve
> were:
> * Remove barriers to participation, particularly the 'need to find a
> sponsor for $group during a hackfest' or to help someone get started
> fresh.
> * Make it easier for existing contributors to switch to a different
> document/guide in the event there is some need or push such as the
> recent work on the User Guide that laubersm led.
>
> So jjmcd wisely noted that spreading sponsor powers around would solve
> most of these problems. Heretofore, most of us have collected
> memberships and sponsorship as needed. I'd like to propose at a
> minimum (note that this isn't intended to be a rule or policy) that if
> you own a document (release notes, a guide,
> $other_repo_controlled_document) that you become a sponsor for all of
> our documents. Additionally, someone who is comfortable with our
> environment, and the processes should also get sponsor rights to all
> of our documents to solve the above two problems.
>
> One of the interesting things is that no one seemed concern about
> granting access to people. We want to be pretty liberal with that.
>
> So, I am bringing this to the list in hopes of generating more
> discussion, and see if we want to do that moving forward.
>
> Thoughts, comments, flames??
>
> David Nalley
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