Re: [PATCH i-g-t] [RFC] CONTRIBUTING: commit rights docs

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On 2018-04-13 06:00 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> This tries to align with the X.org communities's long-standing
> tradition of trying to be an inclusive community and handing out
> commit rights fairly freely.
> 
> We also tend to not revoke commit rights for people no longer
> regularly active in a given project, as long as they're still part of
> the larger community.
> 
> Finally make sure that commit rights, like anything happening on fd.o
> infrastructre, is subject to the fd.o's Code of Conduct.
> 
> v2: Point at MAINTAINERS for contact info (Daniel S.)
> 
> v3:
> - Make it clear that commit rights are voluntary and that committers
>   need to acknowledge positively when they're nominated by someone
>   else (Keith).
> - Encourage committers to drop their commit rights when they're no
>   longer active, and make it clear they'll get readded (Keith).
> - Add a line that maintainers and committers should actively nominate
>   new committers (me).
> 
> v4: Typo (Petri).
> 
> v5: Typo (Sean).
> 
> v6: Wording clarifications and spelling (Jani).
> 
> v7: Require an explicit commitment to the documented merge criteria
> and rules, instead of just the implied one through the Code of Conduct
> threat (Jani).
> 
> Acked-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Arkadiusz Hiler <arkadiusz.hiler@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Daniel Stone <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Eric Anholt <eric@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Petri Latvala <petri.latvala@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@xxxxxxx>

Harry

> Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Arkadiusz Hiler <arkadiusz.hiler@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ben Widawsky <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Daniel Stone <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Eric Anholt <eric@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Keith Packard <keithp@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kristian H. Kristensen <hoegsberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Petri Latvala <petri.latvala@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sean Paul <seanpaul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Keith Packard <keithp@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> If you wonder about the wide distribution list for an igt patch: I'd
> like to start a discussions about x.org community norms around commit
> rights at large, at least for all the shared repos. I plan to propose
> the same text for drm-misc and libdrm too, and hopefully others like
> mesa/xserver/wayland would follow.
> 
> fd.o admins also plan to discuss this (and a pile of other topics and
> hosting and code of conduct) with all projects, ideally this here
> would end up as the starting point for establishing some community
> norms.
> -Daniel
> ---
>  CONTRIBUTING | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 48 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING b/CONTRIBUTING
> index 0180641be3aa..8a118134275c 100644
> --- a/CONTRIBUTING
> +++ b/CONTRIBUTING
> @@ -51,4 +51,52 @@ A short list of contribution guidelines:
>  - Changes to the testcases are automatically tested. Take the results into
>    account before merging.
>  
> +Commit rights
> +-------------
> +
> +Commit rights will be granted to anyone who requests them and fulfills the
> +below criteria:
> +
> +- Submitted a few (5-10 as a rule of thumb) non-trivial (not just simple
> +  spelling fixes and whitespace adjustment) patches that have been merged
> +  already.
> +
> +- Are actively participating on discussions about their work (on the mailing
> +  list or IRC). This should not be interpreted as a requirement to review other
> +  peoples patches but just make sure that patch submission isn't one-way
> +  communication. Cross-review is still highly encouraged.
> +
> +- Will be regularly contributing further patches. This includes regular
> +  contributors to other parts of the open source graphics stack who only
> +  do the oddball rare patch within igt itself.
> +
> +- Agrees to use their commit rights in accordance with the documented merge
> +  criteria, tools, and processes.
> +
> +Apply for an account (and any other account change requests) through
> +
> +https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/AccountRequests/
> +
> +and please ping the maintainers if your request is stuck.
> +
> +Committers are encouraged to request their commit rights get removed when they
> +no longer contribute to the project. Commit rights will be reinstated when they
> +come back to the project.
> +
> +Maintainers and committers should encourage contributors to request commit
> +rights, especially junior contributors tend to underestimate their skills.
> +
> +Code of Conduct
> +---------------
> +
> +Please be aware the fd.o Code of Conduct also applies to igt:
> +
> +https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/CodeOfConduct/
> +
> +See the MAINTAINERS file for contact details of the igt maintainers.
> +
> +Abuse of commit rights, like engaging in commit fights or willfully pushing
> +patches that violate the documented merge criteria, will also be handled through
> +the Code of Conduct enforcement process.
> +
>  Happy hacking!
> 
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