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Adds a Committer Policy section to CONTRIBUTING.rst

Laurence Urhegyi requested to merge laurence/update-contributing-guide into master

Description

A while back, it was proposed on the mailing list that we follow the subversion committers policy, and I have been meaning to submit this MR since then.

This MR introduces the first part of that, ie. it tries to outline who has full commit access to the BuildStream codebase. I will have missed people, so apologies to them - I fully expect to have to amend this MR. So far I have only focused on full commit access and not partial commit access, since we did not yet agree on how to divide the other areas of the codebase, nor (as far as I know) how to do the logistical separation of permissions between these different areas (I don't know is Gitlab is capable of this...I know it has the concept of codeowners but am unsure if it's suitable). Edit: we agreed on the list that it's best to focus on the full committers to begin with and apply common sense.

Proposed Changes

Changes proposed in this merge request:

  • Adds a section to CONTRIBUTING.rst regarding the committer policy
  • Adds a COMMITTERS.rst file
  • Removes the MAINTAINERS.rst file
Edited by Laurence Urhegyi

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