[ZF] Becoming a member

[Benji York]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> Steve Alexander wrote:
>> Chris Withers wrote:
>>> Jim Fulton wrote:
>>>> No, as good as now. As currently written, the ZF docs don't let people
>>>> become members until they have made substantial contributions. 
>>> A big part of me thinks this is a good thing.
>>>
>>> I'd much prefer people just submit patches to a tracker that apply
>>> easily before we let them loose on a stable code base like the Zope 2
>>> core...
>> I agree with Chris in principle.  I wonder how practical this is, though.
>>
>> Is there a way to allow people to work on branches in SVN, but not merge
>> to the Trunk?
>>
>> This is how I work on projects using Bazaar -- it's easy to let people
>> work using all the usual revision control features, but have a separate
>> authorization required to merge to the mainline or a branch for a
>> product release.
>>
>> I don't know enough about SVN to know if a similar thing is possible there.
> 
> Yes, it's possible with svn to give someone commit privileges only to a 
> certain area (e.g. not the trunk). Not sure if it's supported with 
> svn+ssh, though.

It is.  But I doubt we'll want to put the effort into managing that.
-- 
Benji York
Senior Software Engineer
Zope Corporation