FGAddon

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Background

Some months ago, here, I asked to people to contact me in private in order to get commit access to the FGAddon repository. — Clement de l'Hamaide (2014-12-16). Re: [Flightgear-devel] Wrong commits in FGAddon repository. (powered by Instant-Cquotes)

This is really important - we have had recurring issues with non-coders using CVS, Git and now Svn without thinking about the results. None of these systems are like Dropbox or and FTP server, and what you do with them has long-term consequences and potentially even implications for support the projects receives. I.e if we abuse the severs we get kicked off. — James Turner (2014-12-16). Re: [Flightgear-devel] Wrong commits in FGAddon repository. (powered by Instant-Cquotes)

I’m glad Clement is ensuring the quality of commits to the SVN repository is high, because unfortunately the Git repository suffered from that very badly. And in all these systems, there is often no ‘undo’ - once things are done, they are done forever, or require days of careful planning to make safe corrections. — James Turner (2014-12-16). Re: [Flightgear-devel] Wrong commits in FGAddon repository. (powered by Instant-Cquotes)

Todo

when someone contact me to get commit access to FGAddon I usually send him some instructions about 'what to do' or 'what to not do' and 'how to do'. — Clement de l'Hamaide (2014-12-16). Re: [Flightgear-devel] Wrong commits in FGAddon repository. (powered by Instant-Cquotes)

One thing we need to do is document this up-front (on the Wiki I guess), since it hasn’t changed from CVS or Git days either. In the beginning you had to convince Curt to get CVS access, then you had to convince any of the Git admins (me, Anders, Torsten, Clement, Curt, etc) - and now it’s basically the same group for SVN. — James Turner (2014-12-16). Re: [Flightgear-devel] Wrong commits in FGAddon repository. (powered by Instant-Cquotes)

Obtaining Access

About "how I decide who can or can't contribute" it's as simple as this: when someone contact me, I'm looking at who is this person, is it a long term contributor ? is it an active forum member ? — Clement de l'Hamaide (2014-12-16). Re: [Flightgear-devel] Wrong commits in FGAddon repository. (powered by Instant-Cquotes)

If he is not a long term contributor but an active forum member - "active" mean: a user who is member for long time (more than 3 months) and someone who posted more than 100 posts - I'm checking that this person is aware of how works FlightGear (by reading his posts) and his spirit (it's easy to know if someone is on the same wave or not by reading his posts) is in accordance with the FG spirit (I'm contributing to FlightGear and discussing with long term core dev since more than 4 years now so I can say that I know what is the spirit of FG) — Clement de l'Hamaide (2014-12-16). Re: [Flightgear-devel] Wrong commits in FGAddon repository. (powered by Instant-Cquotes)

Also, I'm not the only one person who can give commit access, I give "admin" access to the FGAddon repo to 4 persons (Curt, Anders, Gijs, Torsten) so you can be sure that the FGAddon repo is not 'only in my hand' but also in the hand of other persons. — Clement de l'Hamaide (2014-12-16). Re: [Flightgear-devel] Wrong commits in FGAddon repository. (powered by Instant-Cquotes)