So your basically telling me, I can’t decide who gets the power to +2 on for example a toolforge tool I actively am the primary maintainer of? Instead it has to be requested. I do not disagree with a lot of the changes to technical policies, but with this change it seems to restrict ability to scale projects. I also do believe that this change should of be taken under RfC or some sort of consensus-gaining measure. I respect the intentions, but I absolutely think the change needs reverted then voted on by the technical community.
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On Mar 16, 2019, at 9:57 AM, Isarra Yos zhorishna@gmail.com wrote:
On 16/03/2019 14:35, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote:
On 2019-03-16 14:48, Merlijn van Deen (valhallasw) wrote:
- According to the policy, self-+2'ing is grounds for revocation of Gerrit
privileges. For a Toolforge tool, self +2-ing is common and expected: the repository is hosted on Gerrit to allow for CI and to make contributions from others easier, not necessarily for the code review features.
The policy calls out this case as acceptable:
"For extensions (and other projects) not deployed to the Wikimedia cluster, the code review policy is up to the maintainer or author of the extension. Some non-Wikimedia extensions follow Wikimedia's policy of prohibiting self-merges, but there is no requirement of that. If you are the only person writing the extension and have nobody to review your change, or if the extension is abandoned, it is acceptable to self-merge your changes."
The problem is now it's a lot more difficult to start scaling beyond that. Perhaps we simply need an exception for this, too, in these cases?
-I
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