[ZF] Becoming a member

[Jim Fulton]

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, in theory, but it would be a waste of time imo.  We haven't had a problem
with people abusing access to the repo.

Jim

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