[Development] Nominating Iikka Eklund as approver

Sergio Ahumada sergio.ahumada at digia.com
Thu Jan 24 14:13:59 CET 2013


>> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 01:32:09PM +0000, Koehne Kai wrote:
>>> Parts of the packaging process is in gerrit (namely qtsdk/qtsdk.git),
>>
>>> so he should be really  be able to stage things :)
>>>
>> uh, wtf?! nothing against iikka specifically (couldn't judge it), but this is so
>> totally *not* a reason to make someone an approver. in areas where no
>> approvers typically operate (mostly playground projects), we create special-
>> purpose groups where the involved people have the rights they need to get
>> the work done. approver status is supposed to be earned by displaying
>> reasonably universal competence within the project, not being the only guy
>> available to check +2 in a particular area.
>
> I guess giving Iikka local approver privileges for qtsdk.git would cut it, too. Anyhow, you might then start to wonder whether anyone who's an approver for qt-creator necessarily needs approver rights for qtwebkit, qt-creator etc ... I think it's reasonable to expect that people exercise their approver rights with care, and only use it were appropriate.

just to make it clear .. this is not by any means the reason for the 
nomination.

qtsdk/qtsdk.git has its own group since it was created 
https://codereview.qt-project.org/#admin,project,qtsdk/qtsdk,access

Cheers,
-- 
Sergio Ahumada
Release Engineer - Digia, Qt



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