From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19030 invoked by alias); 23 May 2003 17:39:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 15478 invoked from network); 23 May 2003 17:37:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO piper.synopsys.com) (204.176.21.194) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 23 May 2003 17:37:58 -0000 Received: (from jbuck@localhost) by piper.synopsys.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h4NHam726211; Fri, 23 May 2003 10:36:48 -0700 Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 17:42:00 -0000 From: Joe Buck To: Richard Stallman Cc: Gerald Pfeifer , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Manual contributions and copyright assignments Message-ID: <20030523103648.A25849@synopsys.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from rms@gnu.org on Thu, May 22, 2003 at 04:33:49AM -0400 X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg02111.txt.bz2 On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 04:33:49AM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > I am worried about the idea that all 100 people with write access can > install others' changes. That means we depend on all 100 of them to > check properly for legal papers. It is unreliable to have 100 people > doing this! Don't worry; only a very small number of people have global write privilege. The others only have permission to modify very limited areas of the compiler, or to check in a patch that has been approved by someone with greater privilege. Generally speaking, these people are checking in their own patches, and all have papers on file. > I have no objection to your allowing 100 people to install their own > changes--if you trust them, that's good enough for me. But unless you > have very effective procedures for making sure all 100 people check > papers properly, you should greatly reduce the people who are allowed > to install changes other than their own. That's pretty much the process we follow; when an unknown person submits a patch, the very first question asked has to do with the status of their papers.