[os-infrastructure] State of the onion

[Joe Abbate]

Hi David,

David Tondreau wrote:
> If you read all three paragraphs I put in the e-mail from the Mozilla 
> site, you will find that the last paragraph speaks specifically to 
> source code.  The process it articulates is identical to the process 
> that is on the page you referred me to.  Even that page says:
>
>    "When you have a patch, submit it to Bugzilla
>    <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org> as an attachment to that bug. We're
>    big believers in code review, so before code is checked in to the
>    CVS Repository it must be reviewed by the appropriate module owner
>    <http://www.mozilla.org/owners.html> or one of his peers."

I think you'll find that that is typical of open source projects.  
Initially contributors are not given commit access.  The CVS and 
Subversion repositories which you referred to as "read-only" are not 
so.  Anyone who has been granted commit access will have write 
permission to the repository via some authenticated mechanism.  In order 
to get commit access, the contributor has to first prove him or herself 
by submitting his/her patches to someone who does.  That committer may 
or may not be an employee of the sponsoring company.

Joe