Problems getting developer access to the xorg cvs

[Brian Paul]

When people want CVS-write access to Mesa on freedesktop.org I've been 
pointing them to Daniel Stone or Eric Anholt.  I don't know if they're 
the "gatekeepers" for the X tree too.

-Brian

Deron Johnson wrote:
> In this particular case it wasn't really an issue of verifying that Amir
> is a good person to receive developer access. The issue was that we
> couldn't find any one person who has the responsibility of granting this
> access. We only knew who PREVIOUSLY had the responsibility. Even Stuart
> Kreitman, who is on the Xorg board, was unable to determine this.
> 
> Does anybody know who currently has the responsibility for granting
> developer access?
> 
> I think it would benefit Xorg to have a specific mailing list, besides
> site-wranglers, which is a moderated list, for people to send to when
> they are requesting developer access. Call it something like
> xorg-developer-request at freedesktop.org. All you need to do is make
> sure that somebody is always assigned to handle requests sent to this
> alias. This would be a very simple solution to implement.
> 
> Keith Whitwell wrote:
> 
> 
>>I'm not necessarily in favour of people being granted CVS access sight unseen. 
>>  I don't know what your developer's situation is, but I don't think there 
>>should be an expectation that people who haven't participated in development 
>>previously, I'm talking about submitting patches, bug reports, etc., should 
>>expect CVS access just by asking for it.  Nor, obviously, do I think that the 
>>XFree86 idea of (I don't know how much) more than 5 years of waiting for this 
>>is desireable either.
>>
>>But I do feel that CVS access should be a priviledge granted sometime after a 
>>person has individually shown themselves to be a worthwhile & useful 
>>developer.  It's obviously a lot less contentious to weed people out *before* 
>>granting CVS access to being in a position later on where you have to yank it, 
>>which is always going to lead to hard feelings.
>>
>>So, in respect to your developer, I don't see any posts to this list from him 
>>(though I don't have a full archive, so I could be wrong) - shouldn't some 
>>basic participation in the public lists be a prerequisite to CVS access?
>>
>>Also let me note that I'm not in a position to influence the descision one way 
>>or another, just expressing my opinions on the matter.
>>
>>Keith
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