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Subject: RE: Committers
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:09:45 +1000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Burrell Donkin [mailto:rdonkin@apache.org]
> Sent: Thursday, 19 November 2009 8:27 AM
> To: rat-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Committers
> 
> Ross Gardler wrote:
> > 2009/11/18 Robert Burrell Donkin <rdonkin@apache.org>:
> >> Ross Gardler wrote:
> >>> One of the problems I have observed here in RAT is the lack of
> >>> committers on the project. There are simply not enough people with
> >>> cycles to apply patches in good time frames (I know from personal
> >>> experience).
> >>>
> >>> Given the nature of RAT I would strongly suggest existing committers
> >>> look to recent activity and provide early commit access to people
> >>> already known to us. To be adopted and therefore improved RAT needs to
> >>> be adopted by the projects expecting to use it, when a project looks
> >>> keen to do so we should, at this stage, make it easy for them to do
> >>> so. Hence, as mentor, I suggest a low barrier to entry for people on
> >>> ASF projects.
> >> sorry for dropping the ball on this.
> >
> > Blast - whilst writing this email I said to myself "be sure to
> > indicate that this is not a complaint, the latest round of patches are
> > all less than three days old". My intention was just to flag it - not
> > to complain.
> 
> i didn't take it as a complaint, more a call to arms. you're right and
> the timing's right.
> 
> - robert

Ok, to move forward quickly then, can I suggest :-

1. Grant commit access to Brian Fox so he can sort out the website issues
   (and remove access again if he feels this can just be a temporary
arrangement in order to get us over this hurdle)

2. Grant myself access in order to help apply patches in a timely manor. CTR
of course should still be the order of the day, but if I helps ... ?

Gav...