[Zope-dev] SVN Write access procedure

[Andreas Jung]

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Am 22.04.2009 um 17:30 schrieb Behrang Dadsetan:

> Hi!
>
>  After 8-9 years of admiring Zope and using it now and then, I
> finally got myself to contribute to the grok project. I hope to
> contribute even more in the near and mid-term future.
>
>  We seem to have an issue with the documentation for becoming an SVN
> Contributor. Here are the steps I followed and the dead-end I got to.
>
>  Following diverse people's advice, I followed the instructions from
> http://www.zope.org/DevHome/Subversion/ImpatientPeoplesGuideToRequestingCommitPrivileges

This location is going to die. In fact it should die very soon.

>  which basically points to
> http://docs.zope.org/developer/becoming-a-contributor.html

That's the new location.

>
>  I filled out the form, scanned it and mailed the scan to
> foundation-info at zope.org as mentioned in the contact details of the
> foundation on the 18th of April. Shortly afterwards, I received an
> automated response:
> Subject: Your message to Foundation-Info awaits moderator approval
> [snip]
> The reason it is being held:
>
>   Message body is too big: 1817623 bytes with a limit of 40 KB
> [snip]
>
> After this was a lengthy silence. So I followed the next step from
> becoming-a-contributor.html which says to nag Jim Fulton.
>
> The problem is Jim never heard of this process and never saw my
> initial request. He was suprised the DevHome/ImpatientPeopleGuide..
> was modified.
>
> Any suggestions what the new process should be? Is the Zope foundation
> now responsible for giving SVN Write access now that the form is about
> sharing copyright with the Foundation? If so, who can one nag within
> the Zope Foundation?
>
> We need to update the documentation of this procedure once we  
> figured it out :)
>

The board of directors of the Zope Foundation is going to address this  
issue. In fact it should
be on our agenda for the next board meeting this week afaik.

Andreas




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