2020.03.24 09:57 "[Tiff] Motion to grant push rights to Thomas Bernard", by Even Rouault

2020.03.25 16:18 "Re: [Tiff] Motion to grant push rights to Thomas Bernard", by Olivier Paquet

Which makes me wonder: do we have some policy on merge requests? eg. should we wait for review/comments from someone else before merging some code? Wait some amount of time? Just merge and hope for the best? I don't think we had that discussion when we switched to gitlab. As far as I know, CVS worked more or less as "discuss anything uncertain on the mailing list and please don't break stuff when you commit".

My personal opinion regarding this would be to have a soft policy:

That seems reasonable and pretty much what is being done. I don't think we need hard rules at this point, just some guidance.

I know OSS projects which require approval by other members for any merge request to be merged, but there are significantly more staffed than libtiff.

Indeed, given that there are not that many of us and even fewer with spare time, it would be difficult and likely result in a large backlog.

Olivier