oVirt comminuty voting

Itamar Heim iheim at redhat.com
Wed Sep 14 13:39:02 UTC 2011



> -----Original Message-----
> From: project-planning-bounces at ovirt.org
[mailto:project-planning-bounces at ovirt.org] On Behalf Of Yair
> Zaslavsky
> Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 16:34 PM
> To: project-planning at ovirt.org
> Subject: Re: oVirt comminuty voting
> 
> On 09/14/2011 01:27 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: project-planning-bounces at ovirt.org
> >>
> > [mailto:project-planning-bounces at ovirt.org] On Behalf Of Carl
> >
> >> Trieloff
> >> Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 21:08 PM
> >> To: project-planning at ovirt.org; Jim Jagielski
> >> Subject: oVirt comminuty voting
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Please read, we can always vote in updates, so proof it and make sure
it
> >> is good enough to get going with.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > (URL REDACTED - INFO: http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/project-planning/2011-September/000283.html)
> >
> >> Jim, if you also proof, given your experience in this area
> >>
> >> I have linked it into the web site layout in the google doc, I'll be
> >> working all the key sections one by one to get us going for launch.
> >>
> > Another thought/issue:
> > Currently maintainer == committer.
> > Ovirt engine has multiple modules in it.
> > While a lot of people have commit rights, they are not considered
> > maintainers of the entire project.
> > However, it makes sense for them to commit the holistic patch across
> > multiple modules once all acks are given.
> >
> > So to me, a maintainer is someone who can ack a patch for a certain
module
> > A committer can commit code, but is responsible to not commit without
an
> >
> Another question here -
> when you speak of modules - are you referring also for sub modules,  for
> example - the bll and dal modules in engine core?

I was thinking more across what we call projects, but we could define same
level of granularity to regions in the engine core itself as well.

> 
> > ack from the relevant maintainer if the patch encompasses subsystems
> > outside of his domain expertise (i.e., committer is not maintainer in
all
> > portions the patch set will touch)
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
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