VCS Account Request: jacob View as Markdown

On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Pierre Joye pierre.php@gmail.com
wrote:

btw, what is the best way to approve such accounts, with karma?

On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 9:59 PM, Jacob Bednarz jacob.bednarz@gmail.com
wrote:

• Triaging bugs, issues and cleaning up bug reports

one doesn't need any additional karma for handling bugreports, only an
approved php.net account.
recently I approved one or two similar account requests, but only
because they were from regulars from php-internals@ people whom already
provided pull requests in the past.
I think if the number of these kind of requests stays low it won't be a
problem, but otherwise it could bias/dilute the rfc voting(as we only
require a valid php.net account there) depending on how somebody
interprets the voting rfc.

Someone doing regular bug triage, valid them, test them, follow them is an
awesome active contributor and deserve more than anyone else to vote.

Just to make it clear, this is an ungrateful job and requires to know php
very well from a userland pov. Many of us don't, including me. :)

just to make it clear: I approved those account request, because I agree
with you that it really an important task.
but I also think that many people would argue with you that having no karma
or any commits should be allowed to vote("People with php.net SVN accounts
that have contributed code to PHP").
it was also brought up multiple times in the past that how can this and
that php.net account has no karma at all.
Personally I would be fine with either decision (that they allowed to vote
or not), but I think that it would be nice if we could discuss this and get
a consensus soon instead of later when somebody makes a big drama out of it.

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