[Gimp-docs] How to get the authority for committing cvs?

[Daniel Egger]

On 21.09.2006, at 14:57, julien wrote:

> So, if you apply for a cvs account and does not get it, this means  
> that your work is not good, that you are irresponsible and that you  
> are so bad that nobody wants you to commit...

The "and"s should rather be "or"s. And yes, that would be perfectly
valid reasons for *not* getting R/W CVS access.

CVS access means CVS access for the complete GNOME repository and
that's quite a lot of code. And thanks to CVS it is really simple
to screw up, be it accidentally or itentionally.

So this is how it works: You supply high quality work in form of
patches/documents/papers/whatever and be nice and reasonable to
other people on mailinglists and possibly IRC. One some someone with
write permissions will recognize the work and trustworthyness and ask
you whether you'd rather like to have more permissions and if so
present the case to the GNOME cvsmasters who will typically
acknowledge the request. Since problems would easily fire back to
the so called sponsor it's really a matter of knowing and trusting
each other to some degree.

One actually *can* apply for a CVS account directly at cvsmasters but
I would really recommend against this except for very special cases.

Trying to skip a few steps others habe to take is normally considered
a rude thing.

Servus,
       Daniel

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