[PATCH wayland 2/2] contributing: commit rights

[Matheus Santana]

Reviewed-by: Matheus Santana <embs at cin.ufpe.br>

Thanks for engaging on this. As a newcomer, it's great to have such
information on my disposal.

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 10:42 AM, Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
> --
> 2.16.4
>
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