Hi Karl and Kamila,
> She has been the prime mover behind the last couple of
> automake releases, also involved with config, autoconf, and surely other
> things I don't know about
Welcome Kamila, to the group of GNU package maintainers! I've already
witnessed some of the improvements that you are doing in Automake.
Kamila will be welcome as a Gnulib contributor too, of course.
However, the habits among Gnulib maintainers are not that someone can
get commit access in one day or even one month. Rather, the Gnulib
development follows these principles:
* Proposed patches are sent to the mailing list. One of the
maintainers then reviews it; this typically happens within 1-3 days.
* Only uncontroversial patches ought to be committed. Since judging
what is "uncontroversial" is difficult, especially for new
contributors, it takes a couple of months of learning before one
can expect to possess this judgement.
* When a maintainer is sure that a patch is uncontroversial, they
can commit it right away — while still CCing the mailing list.
Therefore typically we offer blanket write access only once a contributor
possesses this judgement and once we get tired of committing patches in
their name.
When we commit patches in the name of contributors, we also look whether
the patches are sizeable and, if so, whether the contributor has signed
a copyright assignment with the FSF for these contributions [1]. In the
case of Kamila, since we expect sizeable patches, it would be good to
start this copyright assignment process for GNULIB.
Bruno
[1] https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Papers.html
