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

[Sean Paul]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 6:01 AM Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
wrote:

> 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).

I don't remember this, but good for me!

Current revision looks good, and I am supportive of applying it to drm-misc.

Acked-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul at chromium.org>


> 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!
> --
> 2.16.2