This is a template for offering people commit access in the contrib/ area. Just replace "J. Random" with the offeree, "XXXXX" with the name of their contribution, and "{AT}" with "@". Thanks to Garrett Rooney for his original mail to Ray Miller regarding p42svn, on which this template is based. --------------------8-<-------cut-here---------8-<----------------------- To: J. Random <jrandom@remember_to_fix_the_recipient_please.com> CC: private{AT}subversion.apache.org Subject: Subversion commit access for XXXXX J. Random, I discussed it with the rest of the Subversion Committers, and we'd like to offer you limited commit access to the Subversion repository for your work on XXXXX. All of us think that having it in the tree would give it a wider audience, which is always a good thing, both for finding bugs and for finding new developers to help out. Assuming you accept, you'll be able to create a XXXXX directory in the contrib/ subdirectory of the Subversion tree, and maintain XXXXX there from now on. Your commit access to the repository would be limited to that subdirectory, so for any changes outside of that area you would have to have the patches reviewed by someone with full commit access. This limitation isn't actually enforced by any technical means (we've always been too lazy to set up hook scripts or mod_authz_svn). It's enforced only by social convention, so please be careful not to inadvertantly commit any changes outside the XXXXX subdirectory. Note that we decided to put XXXXX in contrib/ simply because at the moment you would be its only active maintainer -- whereas placing it in the tools/ subdirectory would imply some level of official support, and we prefer to have multiple active maintainers before doing that. In the future, if more people get involved with XXXXX, we can look at moving it into tools/. If you do not already have partial commit access, you can accept this offer by replying to this mail and following the instructions at <http://www.apache.org/dev/new-committers-guide.html#cla>. A temporary password will be chosen for you and revealed via email. Once you are notified that your account has been created, you are encouraged to modify the COMMITTERS file appropriately (under the 'XXXXXXXXXXX' section, describing your commit area as '(XXXXXXX)'), which also serves as a test of your new username and password. Then create contrib/XXXXX/ and start committing! Thanks, -Your Name Here