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From: Alistair Francis <alistair23@gmail.com>
To: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com>
Cc: overseers@sourceware.org, Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
Subject: Re: glibc commit access
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 20:45:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKmqyKNwLO=JoKQbYApktOQFJcdeOzavW8E2EQjqCOHfhYi3=A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b2ef4dde-fd34-5619-f300-a364394036a6@redhat.com>

On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 1:08 PM Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/25/19 1:50 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 09:19:57AM -0700, Alistair Francis wrote:
> >> On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 8:22 AM Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 9/25/19 10:07 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>>> On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 10:11:28PM -0700, Alistair Francis wrote:
> >>>>> Overseers,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Please add me (alistair23) to the glibc group after verifying with
> >>>>> carlos@redhat.com.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> carlos@redhat.com vouches for my sanity and competence.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I truly understand FSF copyright protocols, and always respect
> >>>>> per-branch policies on what I am allowed to touch and how.
> >>>>
> >>>> An account was just added for you for the glibc project yesterday.
> >>>
> >>> Perfect. Does that mean we're all done?
> >>
> >> I'm not sure, according to
> >> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/MAINTAINERS I still need to have
> >> write permission added.
> >
> > When you were provided with an account in the glibc project you were
> > put in the glibc group.
> >
> > After reading the above link, I can see why you thought that you needed
> > an additional step.  That web page does seem to instruct that you have
> > to send email here.  That's not required, however.  The only reason to
> > send email here is if you already have an account on sourceware and are
> > not a member of the glibc project.  Otherwise, the new project form is
> > enough.
> >
> > Could someone change wording at https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/MAINTAINERS
> > be tweaked to avoid this understandable confusion?
>
> Tweaked. Please review?
>
> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/MAINTAINERS#Becoming_a_maintainer_.28developer.29

That is clearer.

Maybe it's worth adding a note about people who already have accounts
and want to join a new project?

Alistair

>
> --
> Cheers,
> Carlos.
>

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-25 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-25  5:12 Alistair Francis
2019-09-25 14:07 ` Christopher Faylor
2019-09-25 15:22   ` Carlos O'Donell
2019-09-25 16:24     ` Alistair Francis
2019-09-25 16:43       ` Carlos O'Donell
2019-09-25 17:50       ` Christopher Faylor
2019-09-25 20:08         ` Carlos O'Donell
2019-09-25 20:45           ` Alistair Francis [this message]
2019-09-25 21:04             ` Carlos O'Donell
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-10-09 19:53 Torvald Riegel
2013-10-09 19:55 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2012-07-02 18:46 GLIBC " Maxim Kuvyrkov
2012-07-02 19:09 ` Roland McGrath
2012-07-09 13:23 ` Ian Lance Taylor

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