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Subject: Re: Maintainer/committer model for CloudStack
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On May 15, 2012, at 9:21 PM, David Nalley wrote:
> This is a discussion still - no need to move it away from this list =
IMO.
>=20
> John - thanks for writing this up.
>=20
> So there's a mixture of our own terminology and ASF terminology - and
> I propose that we start with a lexicon, and here's what I'd suggest:
>=20
> Contributors - people who contribute in one way or another to the =
project
> Committers - people who have commit access to the project's repo(s)
> Maintainers - volunteers from the pool of committers who have stepped
> forward to shepherd a single module. This is not a position of
> authority - but rather one of responsibility - to ensure coding
> standards are met, that accepted patches don't break things, etc.

Is this statement valid?

"In general, maintainers only have commit rights on the module for which =
they are responsible"

Is CS going to manage commit rights at this level of granularity?