[ZF] Becoming a member

[Jim Fulton]

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.

Of course it is.

> 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 don't like this for 2 reasons:

- I don't like applying patches.

- I strongly prefer, for IP reasons that people check in their own work.
   In fact, the committer agreement as currently written would not allow
   committers to apply patches contributed by others.

...

> However, it's now approaching its first public release, things have 
> stabilised, and I'd only want people I trusted committing to it.

We've had a liberal committer process for years and we haven't
had a problem with people committing things willy nilly.  I have found new
committers to be generally very cautious and considerate.

> If this was a "ZF project", in phase one, I may have been a ocmmunity 
> newbie just needing svn space and a "project home". Is this something we 
> want to support?

Does it even matter whether people are newbies?  I don't know if we want to
provide svn space for experimental projects.  That's something that we have
to decide.

> In the latter phase, I'd only wanted vetted people I trusted able to 
> commit, which is the point I raised at the start of this mail...

Right and I think, based on history, that it is a misplaced concern.

Jim

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