[ANN] Changes to permissions

[Brett Porter <br...@apache.org>]

Hi,

As we voted upon, the permissions have now been changed. If you are a  
committer anywhere in Maven, you now (technically) can commit to any  
subprojects or branches in the Maven tree.

But as was discussed, this doesn't change each of our  
responsibilities in the community. Maven is big - and I would guess  
that nobody knows about every piece of code here any more. If you are  
jumping in to something for the first time, or coming back after a  
long absence, it makes sense to just ask whether something you are  
going to do is a good idea. The social permissions are still in  
place. There are plenty of good examples given where people with the  
best intentions muck things up and while in SVN its all reversible it  
could well be a pain, and quite embarrassing :) So, if you are  
uncertain about anything - just ask.

Of course, this doesn't affect any of the other rules such as voting  
for code changes, releases, etc.

Also, remember that in addition all Apache committers have full  
access to the Maven sandbox, and are welcome to request to create  
branches of things that they'd like to try out.

That said, I hope this proves to be very useful in allowing people to  
contribute in small parts with fixes, documentation, tests and to  
spread the load of applying patches in areas that they might  
otherwise have not been able to commit a huge amount of time to.

Cheers,
Brett


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