On 12/26/2012 01:09 PM, vitalif@yourcmc.ru wrote:
Actually registration is open to everyone now by simple form submission. So actually, any one developer could get any change they wanted merged. All they need to do is trivially register a second labs account.
Okay, but current situation is also a problem, because with it reviewing and merging takes much more time. And as I've said, I think most extensions aren't as important as the core, and limitting approve for them to core developers is just a waste...
Maybe you should add some group similar to previous (SVN) "commit access to extensions", so a wider group of people could merge changes to the extensions?
When I look at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Gerrit_project_ownership and its history, I see that it's reasonably easy to get Gerrit ownership for less-used and less-maintained extensions, especially ones that are not deployed on Wikimedia sites. But perhaps we should be even more open to newer contributors. Maybe our rule should be: if an extension is not deployed on Wikimedia sites, then we should basically allow anyone to merge new code in (disallowing self-merges), unless the existing maintainers object. This would make things more flexible and encourage faster development in the extensions community, and help developers get more practice in code review so that they could also apply for maintainership of other extensions and core.
What do people think?