Opening up Cabal development

[Edward Z. Yang]

I pulled the trigger.  If you are mad, talk to me.

https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/3567

Edward

Excerpts from Edward Z. Yang's message of 2016-07-13 16:32:39 -0700:
> Hey all,
> 
> Paolo Giarrusso suggested that the Cabal project might look into
> giving more people commit bits, ala http://felixge.de/2013/03/11/the-pull-request-hack.html
> 
> I think we do need to give more commit bits.  There's a sliding scale of
> how extreme we can go:
> 
>     1. We can adopt this wholesale: you PR, your GitHub profile checks
>     out, we give you bits.
>     2. If we accept your PR, we give you bits.
>     3. If we accept your PR for a new feature, we give you bits.
> 
> For (2), I trawled the commit history for 2016 and here's what I think
> is all the commits from people without bits.  I apologize if I missed
> anyone (I just went through the commit list by hand.)
> 
>     @thumphries https://github.com/haskell/cabal/commit/ce2ffb24902816ab02f6c6b50921fb3a9a8b92aa
>     @sjakobi https://github.com/haskell/cabal/commit/bb9501bc23914a50684f288bc88cf04747d69c32
>     @accraze https://github.com/haskell/cabal/commit/11650b26ecf0ba95c3a7e747c0968735e906c3b0
>     @headprogrammingczar https://github.com/haskell/cabal/commit/e9883dced04e6a16e25752cc8513ce26325b4b4b
>         https://github.com/haskell/cabal/commit/0252a0aed79e881d4f6210d9296216aef3c301d0
>     @randen https://github.com/haskell/cabal/commits/master?author=randen
>     @aisamanra https://github.com/haskell/cabal/commit/6e2fca4314a01f07d520bc7b7669e70f70a231ce
>     @kolmodin https://github.com/haskell/cabal/commit/0122e821825b875447f3844b349fba582fff39cf
>     @mightybyte https://github.com/haskell/cabal/commit/ea01974be888d25ef918e7808aa6cf6b8aac1275
>     @gbaz https://github.com/haskell/cabal/commit/c69dfb8209dc7bfd9abf2a7e494704db652073c9
>     @garetxe https://github.com/haskell/cabal/commit/c72aa8dbb5a11fb4137bda62c9b7a99fb48b7649
>     @komadori https://github.com/haskell/cabal/commit/1da9b3533e6a0fae8692fa0f4f532ea63d43ccc8
>     @mgsloan https://github.com/haskell/cabal/commit/c10a4ca8c50290efc0b0ea65b34116ae165ccc9b
>     @lukexi https://github.com/haskell/cabal/commit/5efc6341643e7fd98b33aea5a6ab96873d597787
>     @mpkh https://github.com/haskell/cabal/commit/fcaf5d02947c5fd853ff69e2326e08f0082530c1
>     @pra85 https://github.com/haskell/cabal/commit/a69b0ea23b0f00be30933a1dbb63fbc4f1306c17
>     @tvestelind https://github.com/haskell/cabal/commit/fe7b597542d57c74814620ed7a553e252b570ac7
>     @corngood https://github.com/haskell/cabal/commit/4214572306205ad2c20943ef2b3aacbc912c45d3
>     @gelisam https://github.com/haskell/cabal/commit/6b3457de66772d958fd5fe96066b08e93d0fb0c7
> 
> Why don't we give them all commit access!  (If we want to do (1) also
> look at the current PR queue.)
> 
> If people want, we could also formalize some more rules about the state
> of master, e.g.,
> 
>     - The Travis build must always be green.  We should prioritize
>       adding more tests for things we care about.  Look into regular
>       Hackage tests.
>     - PR all your changes (so that you can check that Travis is green),
>       try to get approval for big changes but BE BOLD.
> 
> Cheers,
> Edward