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From: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for March
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:16:51
Message-Id: 47CF0BA4.8020701@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for March by Thomas Anderson
1 Thomas Anderson wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 05 March 2008 14:59:55 Doug Goldstein wrote:
3 >
4 >> Thomas Anderson wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> On Wednesday 05 March 2008 14:41:32 Petteri Räty wrote:
7 >>>
8 >>>> Thomas Anderson kirjoitti:
9 >>>>
10 >>>>>> Please elaborate on how a "full.fledged developer" would differ from a
11 >>>>>> "package maintainer" technically. What requirements and/or
12 >>>>>> priviledges do you think could be reduced?
13 >>>>>>
14 >>>>>> Marius
15 >>>>>>
16 >>>>> Perhaps there could be some honor code system at least, where the
17 >>>>> package maintainer would be restricted to their area of maintainership.
18 >>>>>
19 >>>> This is the current situation.
20 >>>>
21 >>>> Regards,
22 >>>> Petteri
23 >>>>
24 >>> Exactly, only the "package maintainers" wouldn't have everything that a
25 >>> full dev would have...
26 >>>
27 >> What exactly wouldn't they get? What would differ them from Arch Testers?
28 >>
29 >
30 > Arch Testers don't have tree access. This proposal gives the package
31 > maintainer the ability to commit their changes.
32 >
33 >
34 So what you're looking for is committer ACLs. Gentoo's CVS currently
35 does not use any form of ACLs to restrict access. This proposal would
36 have to be discussed with the infra team to consider the feasibility to
37 add ACLs to the tree.
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