Utilizing Instability and Breakage to Promote DSpace Evolution, Code Review and Developer Participation

Proposal for less constraints on Trunk:

To Give DSpace Developers opportunities to work on the trunk without restrictions that everything going into it be completely perfected gives the developer community and the codebase opportunities to evolve. We recognize that sometime disturbance and breakage has a stimulating effect on developer participation.

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Commiter Rights and Google Summer of Code Participation

Background in Discussion of GSoC Commit Rights:

This proposal originally arose out of the Google Summer of Code project with the need to actually have GSoC students help with the code merge of their projects into Trunk. But, as students are not "Committers", they currently are limited in receiving rights to Trunk (under our current policies). It is recommended that we hold a Special Topic meeting next week (July 28, 2010), and try and determine what to do in this scenario. Obviously, this proposal then leads to other questions of how we may view committer rights.

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