Re: Requesting commit access to libdrm

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On Sun, 2019-12-29 at 16:22 +0000, Eric Engestrom wrote:
> On Monday, 2019-12-16 16:51:28 +0000, Souza, Jose wrote:
> > Hello
> > 
> > I have being contributing to i915 for the past 2 years and part of
> > my
> > work is update the PCI ids of Intel devices in libdrm.
> > Being able to push my reviewed patches would be really helpful,
> > please
> > consider this request.
> 
> This is somewhat orthogonal to your access request, but libdrm now
> uses
> Merge Requests (
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm/merge_requests),
> which means if you post a change and it's been reviewed, any one of
> the
> 100+ members can click the "merge" button for you, so not having
> access
> yourself shouldn't be an issue, especially with the number of Intel
> devs
> who do have access.

So CONTRIBUTING.rst should be updated with that new option but I bet
most of the devs will keep only checking the mail list.

> 
> (It also means changes are tested (although mostly build-tested for
> now)
> before they are merged, which reduces the frequency of breakages,
> especially subtle ones.)
> 
> You can still request access if you want by opening an issue
> (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm/issues/new), but since you
> have
> very few commits you'll need approval from another member; I suggest
> you
> cc Lucas (@demarchi) & Rodrigo (@vivijim) by tagging them in your
> issue.

That should also be in CONTRIBUTING.rst

> 
> Hope this helps :)

I will talk with Lucas and Rodrigo, thanks for bringing light to the
new process

Thanks

> 
> Cheers,
>   Eric
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