About the administration

[Boriss Mejias]

Dear hackers,

Next week we will be able to start using the new development 
infrastructure. We will only have the SVN repository at first, but 
that's already enough to discuss some important issues and I need your 
opinion.

REPOSITORY:
Every developer should create an account ASAP, and request to join the 
project. I will grant the "senior developer" role to anybody who already 
has a CVS account in Saarbrucken.

ADMINISTRATOR(S):
At the moment, I'm the only administrator but I will need somebody 
helping with this task. Any volunteer or suggestion?

MAILING-LISTS:
Once the mailing list are migrated (this will be a bit delay as you read 
in a previous email), we will need to grant admin/moderator access to 
those who will be responsible. I think it is reasonable that the people 
who is moderating now carry on with the task. The point is that I don't 
know precisely who is involved. I just know Raph is taking care of some 
of the mailing list, and probably Kevin and Denys are also related.

BUG-TRACKER:
Here we will need the help of the community to migrate the data from the 
current bug-tracker to the new one. Paul Dufresne already volunteer to 
help, so I gave him "tech-support" role in the Mozart-Test1 project. I 
would like to know what is going to be the policy to accept volunteers 
in the real project.

NEW-DEVELOPERS:
What is going to be the policy for granting write access to the SVN 
repository to new developers? Do we have to submit a MEP every time 
somebody wants to become developer? Or is it enough having a discussion 
in the hackers-mailing list? For instance, I would like to give write 
access to Filip Konvicka, because he has shown interest and he has 
already contributed to the release of Mozart-1.3.2. It would be also 
positive to grant write access to the guys working in Colombia in the 
integration with Gecode (The GeOz project). What should be the process 
to give the developer role to this people?

that's it for now
cheers
Boriss