[ZF] Becoming a member

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Jim Fulton wrote:
>> 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.

I agree.

>> 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.

Generally yes. For other cases we have the checkin police :)

>> 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.

We already have the Sandbox, right?