Re: Accounts -- to be active or not to be

[Muhammad Alkarouri <malkarouri at yahoo dot co dot uk>]

On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 08:04, Mohammed Elzubeir wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 11:02, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
[...]
> > The crux of our "fears" is that an unknown entity (or multiples there-of)
> > get CVS access under the pretext of doing work, do a couple of superficial
> > commits (of no or little value) and they are granted full voter access
> > given this all happened within the past 12months.

I agree totally.

>   Along the same lines
> > of a "ban list", we could have a probation period for all new incoming
> > CVS account holders.  That probation is only lifted if their project-manager
> > (ie. whomever they are helping) or a 'core' member if they've started their
> > own project OK's them within a certain period of time.  This in turn gives
> > Arabeyes a level of comfort in knowing that all those that will vote are
> > genuine bona fide contributers who truly should have an equal say in what
> > is to occur (plus all of this can be scripted :-).
> > 
> 
> Not really an issue. I am not giving out CVS accounts unless the project
> maintainer of a given project actually okays the account. Until then,
> the contributor can submit patches via bugzilla [1].

I agree here too.

> 
> Makes everyone's life easier.
> 
> [1] http://bugs.arabeyes.org/

Salam,
k