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| <section> |
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| <title>Policy</title> |
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| <para>The CentOS Artwork Repository is a collaborative tool that |
| anyone can have access to. However, changing that tool in any form |
| is something that should be requested in the <ulink |
| url="mailto:centos-devel@centos.org">CentOS Developers mailing |
| list</ulink>. Generally, people download working copies from |
| CentOS Artwork Repository, study the repository organization, make |
| some changes in their working copies, make some tests to verify |
| such changes do work the way expected and finally request access |
| to commit them up to the CentOS Artwork Repository (i.e., the |
| source repository) for others to benefit from them.</para> |
| |
| <para>Once you've received access to commit your changes, there is |
| no need for you to request permission again to commit other |
| changes from your working copy to CentOS Artwork Repository as |
| long as you behave as a <emphasis>good community |
| citizen</emphasis>.</para> |
| |
| <para>As a good community citizen one understand of a person who |
| respects the work already done for others and share ideas with |
| authors before changing relevant parts of their work, specially in |
| situations when the access required to realize the changes has |
| been granted already. Of course, there is a time when |
| conversation has taken place, the paths has been traced and |
| changing the work is so obvious that there is no need for you to |
| talk about it; that's because you already did, you already built |
| the trust to keep going. Anyway, the mailing list mentioned above |
| is available for sharing ideas in a way that good relationship |
| between community citizens could be constantly balanced.</para> |
| |
| <para>The relationship between community citizens is monitored by |
| repository administrators. Repository administrators are |
| responsible of granting everything goes the way it needs to go in |
| order for the CentOS Artwork Repository to comply its mission |
| which is: to provide a colaborative tool for The CentOS Community |
| where The CentOS Project Corporate Identity is built and |
| maintained from The CentOS Community itself.</para> |
| |
| <para>It is also important to remember that all source files |
| inside CentOS Artwork Repository should comply the terms of GNU |
| General Public License () in order for them to remain inside the |
| repository.</para> |
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| </section> |