Re: [boost] [Guild] Getting volunteers' changes back to trunk

Subject: Re: [boost] [Guild] Getting volunteers' changes back to trunk
From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-11-12 14:30:24

At Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:11:00 -0600,
Jim Bell wrote:
> 
> On 1:59 PM, Rene Rivera wrote:
> >> I didn't see them.  Repost?
> >
> > Here's the post
> > <http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2010/10/172626.php>.
> 
> RE SVN access: I say the guild members never get SVN access. Work
> indefinitely without it. Or if they want it, they run the gauntlet the
> current volunteers do. (I have no desire to run that gauntlet myself.)

"The gauntlet" often just involves getting a maintainer to ask the
moderators to grant them access.  It's not a big deal.  I think if a
maintainer finds himself repeatedly approving a volunteer's patches,
he might well decide it's in his interest.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
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