[Owncloud] Fwd: Re: ownCloud and KDE

[Matthew Dawson]

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Matthew

Matthew Dawson <matthew at mjdsystems.ca> wrote:

>Jan-Christoph Borchardt <JanCBorchardt at fsfe.org> wrote:
>
>>For that reason I just created 2 teams on Gitorious:
>>https://gitorious.org/+owncloud for the core team. Should be set as
>>owner
>>of the owncloud project to enable flexibility when needing to edit
>>things.
>>Should also be owners and committers of the main owncloud repository.
>>Also
>>committers to every repository created in the project (maybe that’s
>>already automatic because they are owners.)
>>https://gitorious.org/+owncloud-contributors people who are granted
>>commit
>>access to the repository without needing to file merge requests. If
>>that’s
>>possible, people in this group should also be able to create new
>>repositories in the project (for new apps etc.)
>>
>>The core team is Frank, Robin, Jakob and me, since we are the
>>most+longest
>>active / contributing. Is that ok? I think it makes sense to appoint
>>that
>>team for administration instead of only Frank because it will not
>>create a
>>bottleneck when quick changes are needed.
>>
>>What do you think?
>>
>>
>>On Wed, August 17, 2011 17:06, Frank Karlitschek wrote:
>>> Hi Matthew,
>>>
>>>
>>> thats a valid question which still has to be discussed.
>>> But even if a new contributor doesn´t have direct write access at
>day
>>one,
>>> creating a clone and a merge request is very easy.
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Frank
>>>
>>>
>>> On 17.08.2011, at 16:20, Matthew Dawson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> My only questions is, how are you going to administer write access
>>to
>>>> the repository? Are you only going to allow a few trusted people,
>>then
>>>> work through merge requests? As I understood it, the kde-developers
>>>> group is no longer supported, or is at least deprecated.
>>>>
>>>> To be clear, I'm not objecting, I just want to make sure the move
>>has a
>>>> well defined plan behind it.
>>>>
>>>> Matthew
>>>>
>
>
>That sounds great!  What are the policies for deciding who is allowed
>into owncloud-contributers?  A few ground rules would probably be good,
>like:
> - After x successful merge requests in y time.
>- Anyone with a 50% working prototype project to be developed under the
>owncloud umbrella.
>etc.
>
>Otherwise, I think its good to seperate owners vs contributers.  And
>having multiple owners, allowing for division of responsibility and a
>higher bus number.
>
>Matthew