Quote from: itinance on Today at 02:57:03 PM

There is a twitter discussion and people are asking exactly that: how many people are at the moment allowed to push directly on the master branch?

The list can be found here:

Quote from: achow101 on February 01, 2017, 10:19:06 PM

I am creating this thread in response to the discussion occurring at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1773558.msg17697805#msg17697805. This list will contain the names (or pseudonyms) of everyone who I can find evidence for ever having commit access to Bitcoin Core, the dates during which they had commit access, sources for all of this information, and reasoning for the access. Those who currently have commit access are in bold.

Quote from: itinance on Today at 02:57:03 PM

And how is this list controlled? What is necessary to add new people in the master-pushers and what is needed to remove someone?

This should answer it:

Quote from: achow101 on February 01, 2017, 10:19:06 PM

Another interesting fact is that the giving out of commit access has become more strict. It is now a privilege held by those given maintainer positions and those whose privilege was grandfathered in (i.e. they had it previously and kept it, until otherwise revoked). Previously it was simply given out to those who contributed frequently and revoked after they stopped contributing. This appears to be no longer the case, although there are still multiple people who can commit to the repository so that there is not any reliance on one person. The maintainers are still given to frequent contributors as the maintainers are frequent contributors to the set of functionality for which they are maintainers of. They received the positions because of frequent contributions to those functionalities. Of those whose commit access was grandfathered, ~~only Pieter Wuille remains~~ - the rest were revoked eventually primarily for the lack of contributions (see each individual for their specific reason).