[igt-dev] [PATCH i-g-t] [RFC] CONTRIBUTING: commit rights docs

[Daniel Vetter]

This tries to align with the X.org communities's long-standing
tradition of trying to be an inclusive community and handing out
commit rights fairly freely.

We also tend to not revoke commit rights for people no longer
regularly active in a given project, as long as they're still part of
the larger community.

Finally make sure that commit rights, like anything happening on fd.o
infrastructre, is subject to the fd.o's Code of Conduct.

v2: Point at MAINTAINERS for contact info (Daniel S.)

v3:
- Make it clear that commit rights are voluntary and that committers
  need to acknowledge positively when they're nominated by someone
  else (Keith).
- Encourage committers to drop their commit rights when they're no
  longer active, and make it clear they'll get readded (Keith).
- Add a line that maintainers and committers should actively nominate
  new committers (me).

v4: Typo (Petri).

v5: Typo (Sean).

v6: Wording clarifications and spelling (Jani).

v7: Require an explicit commitment to the documented merge criteria
and rules, instead of just the implied one through the Code of Conduct
threat (Jani).

Acked-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
Acked-by: Arkadiusz Hiler <arkadiusz.hiler at intel.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org>
Acked-by: Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net>
Acked-by: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo at padovan.org>
Acked-by: Petri Latvala <petri.latvala at intel.com>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
Cc: Arkadiusz Hiler <arkadiusz.hiler at intel.com>
Cc: Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net>
Cc: Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net>
Cc: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo at padovan.org>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com>
Cc: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth at whitecape.org>
Cc: Kristian H. Kristensen <hoegsberg at google.com>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Petri Latvala <petri.latvala at intel.com>
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at intel.com>
Cc: Sean Paul <seanpaul at chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
---
If you wonder about the wide distribution list for an igt patch: I'd
like to start a discussions about x.org community norms around commit
rights at large, at least for all the shared repos. I plan to propose
the same text for drm-misc and libdrm too, and hopefully others like
mesa/xserver/wayland would follow.

fd.o admins also plan to discuss this (and a pile of other topics and
hosting and code of conduct) with all projects, ideally this here
would end up as the starting point for establishing some community
norms.
-Daniel
---
 CONTRIBUTING | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING b/CONTRIBUTING
index 0180641be3aa..8a118134275c 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING
@@ -51,4 +51,52 @@ A short list of contribution guidelines:
 - Changes to the testcases are automatically tested. Take the results into
   account before merging.
 
+Commit rights
+-------------
+
+Commit rights will be granted to anyone who requests them and fulfills the
+below criteria:
+
+- Submitted a few (5-10 as a rule of thumb) non-trivial (not just simple
+  spelling fixes and whitespace adjustment) patches that have been merged
+  already.
+
+- Are actively participating on discussions about their work (on the mailing
+  list or IRC). This should not be interpreted as a requirement to review other
+  peoples patches but just make sure that patch submission isn't one-way
+  communication. Cross-review is still highly encouraged.
+
+- Will be regularly contributing further patches. This includes regular
+  contributors to other parts of the open source graphics stack who only
+  do the oddball rare patch within igt itself.
+
+- Agrees to use their commit rights in accordance with the documented merge
+  criteria, tools, and processes.
+
+Apply for an account (and any other account change requests) through
+
+https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/AccountRequests/
+
+and please ping the maintainers if your request is stuck.
+
+Committers are encouraged to request their commit rights get removed when they
+no longer contribute to the project. Commit rights will be reinstated when they
+come back to the project.
+
+Maintainers and committers should encourage contributors to request commit
+rights, especially junior contributors tend to underestimate their skills.
+
+Code of Conduct
+---------------
+
+Please be aware the fd.o Code of Conduct also applies to igt:
+
+https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/CodeOfConduct/
+
+See the MAINTAINERS file for contact details of the igt maintainers.
+
+Abuse of commit rights, like engaging in commit fights or willfully pushing
+patches that violate the documented merge criteria, will also be handled through
+the Code of Conduct enforcement process.
+
 Happy hacking!
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