[PATCH wayland 2/2] contributing: commit rights

[Pekka Paalanen]

From: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen at collabora.co.uk>

This has been copied from
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/intel-gpu-tools/tree/CONTRIBUTING?id=eccae1360d6d01e73c6af2bd97122cef708207ef
and slightly edited to better with Wayland and Weston.

The intention is to make it easier to give out commit access to new
people, let them know what is expected of them, and help the community
to grow. Hopefully this will in time improve the patch review throughput
and timeliness.

The original text was introduced in
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/intel-gpu-tools/commit/CONTRIBUTING?id=0350f0e7f6a0e07281445fc3082aa70419f4aac7

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen at collabora.co.uk>
---
 CONTRIBUTING.md | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 6e74b6d..70d0eca 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -246,5 +246,38 @@ clarity suffers.
 - The code adheres to the style guidelines.
 
 
+Commit rights
+=============
+
+Commit rights will be granted to anyone who requests them and fulfills the
+below criteria:
+
+- Submitted some (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 in public 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 occasional development in this project.
+
+- Agrees to use their commit rights in accordance with the documented merge
+  criteria, tools, and processes.
+
+To apply for commit rights, create a new issue in gitlab for the respective
+project and give it the "accounts" label.
+
+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.
+
+
 [git documentation]: http://git-scm.com/documentation
 [notes on commit messages]: http://who-t.blogspot.de/2009/12/on-commit-messages.html
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