<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 1:48 AM, Gervase Markham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gerv@mozilla.org" target="_blank">gerv@mozilla.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":3mn" class="a3s aXjCH m15654bd930c35fad">I had a few abortive goes at this a few years ago; it's an enormous<br>
effort to get everyone on the same bandwagon, and just leads to the<br>
creation of bureaucracy for no value. Let's not try it again. </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Actually, there are some modern attempts at this - times have changed.<br></div><div> - Tofino project did an "ack our committer's agreement before we accept your pull request" workflow<br></div><div> - There is director level support for slowly bringing sanity to the wild west of the 'Mozilla' org(s) on GitHub<br></div><div> - Folks are starting to realize the significant cost of administrating GitHub, and looking to offload that work.<br></div><div> - There is an IT/EIS project to allow automated correlation of LDAP/mozillians/github/... accounts which will allow automation (no ET on delivery yet)<br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":3mn" class="a3s aXjCH m15654bd930c35fad">But I<br>
agree with you that having a formal policy for Firefox, and any repos<br>
which are upstream of it, makes sense. Knowing who can check in to a<br>
codebase which gets shipped to hundreds of millions of people is a good<br>
idea.</div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Since key upstream repos are now on GitHub (e.g Rust), this really means we need a plan that covers GitHub, imo.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">As is often the case, these "nice to haves" are "underfunded mandates" until something happens. There are a few of us who keep trying to push the rock up the hill in between the events that get everyone's attention.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">--Hal<br></div></div>