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 > -- > docs mailing list > docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs > -- docs mailing list docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs
