On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 17:08 +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > Hey, > > Everyone on the To: list has commit permissions on some of the OpenStack > packages. It's quite a big list! :-) > > As more people get involved with packaging OpenStack in Fedora/EPEL, I > think we need to figure out how to co-ordinate ourselves better. I had > hoped we could use the cloud SIG mailing list for this but, in practice, > I think folks are reluctant to spam everyone on the list with the nitty > gritty details of what they're working on. > > I'm always reluctant to start another mailing list, but I think it might > be warranted here. What say you to openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxx or even > openstack-maint@xxxxxxxxxxxx? Maybe #fedora-openstack on Freenode too? Ok, consensus seems to be to stick with the cloud SIG mailing list. Perhaps everyone can make a concious effort to keep the list more up to date with what they're working on? > On a related note, I've been quick to approve requests for commit > permissions on these packages in order to encourage folks to get > involved. However, quite a few folks have ever used these permissions so > I'm starting to think we should get require folks to have an actual > contribution ready to commit before approving these requests. I think David's point about established packagers makes sense. So, we'll say that it's fine to liberally grant commit to established packagers, but we (I) should be a bit more cautious and only grant it to new packagers when they have a contribution they want to push. Cheers, Mark. _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
