[Development] Nominate Mike Krus as approver

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Mon Feb 6 19:27:01 CET 2017


On segunda-feira, 6 de fevereiro de 2017 18:39:19 PST Oswald Buddenhagen 
wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 02:54:53PM +0000, Alexander Blasche wrote:
> > >There were no objections and maintainer of a module implies approver, so
> > >could somebody do the honours and grant Mike the rights please? The
> > >necessary period has long since passed.
> > 
> > I am sorry but being the maintainer does not imply approver rights. At
> > most it implies approver rights for the component he is maintainer for. I
> > agree that when you maintain a cross module component that this is
> > somewhat harder to manage.
> selective approver rights are not implementable for a horizontal
> responsibility, so this is kind of moot.
> 
> > In any case I am sure that waiting for the required time does not make
> > much of a difference. Then this discussion is over anyway.
> the previous thread already used the word approver without futher
> qualification
> (http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2016-August/026909.html)
> and nobody objected, so i just gave mike the rights.

Let's not quabble over this.

Becoming maintainer of anything in a main module implies becoming Approver 
everywhere, if one is not so yet.

Restricted maintainership rights should be used only for playground things.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center




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