[sakai-pmc] grant Ben Holmes commit access to Signup tool

[Anthony Whyte]

> I do think that in the short term / during transition - a courtesy check with the historical owners of a portion of the tree is 100% a good idea.

Agreed.  But I'd like to see those interested in adding a committer submit their proposal on the PMC list rather than the infrastructure list or some other venue.  Earlier, I asked Neal to ping the PMC list regarding the Bob Long nomination and now he's followed that up with a Ben Holmes proposal so we've got an interim practice in place and working (needs publicizing on the dev list).  

When Neal (or others) draft these proposals they should make sure that those who support the proposal or are parties of interest (e.g., other committers) are identified and carbon copied.  


anthony whyte | its and mlibrary | university of michigan | arwhyte at umich.edu | 517-980-0228


On Mar 19, 2014, at 1:20 PM, Charles Severance wrote:

> I agree with this approach - mirroring Apache.   And I also feel when we get to github the PMC will likely control the core commit list and there will be lots of rings.
> 
> I do think that in the short term / during transition - a courtesy check with the historical owners of a portion of the tree is 100% a good idea.
> 
> /Chuck
> 
> On Mar 19, 2014, at 12:58 PM, Anthony Whyte <arwhyte at umich.edu> wrote:
> 
>> I asked Neal to post new committer requests on the PMC list rather than on the infrastructure list in order to ensure that PMC members are both informed of such requests and are provided an option of raising an objection.
>> 
>> I recommend that the PMC approve new committer requests, emulating Apache practice [1].  Whether or not recognizing a new committer requires a formal vote is worth discussing.  Personally, it think approval by lazy consensus sufficient--others may disagree (and should say so).
>> 
>> As we move to Github a new definition of what constitutes a Sakai "committer" may well arise.  We may decide we need rather more contributors and fewer committers (i.e., those with a right to merge a pull request to our core repos).  Then again, we might simply grandfather in the current set of active committers.  Either way, the PMC, in my opinion, should decide such questions, either formally or via a lazy consensus.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Anth
> 

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