Re: gothicx-guest removed
My personal position, after reading the pros and cons from many
people, goes along the lines that Vincent has mentioned. ACLs, entry
tests and so on might not provide anything useful but just scare some
people that we might want to have in the team. In any case I want to
decide a way to cope as a team with this kind of situation if it
happens again. Maybe just an easy to get in, easy to get out, watch
carefully the 1st commits and a kind of mentoring program might do.
Miry
2007/10/29, Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> On 10/29/07, Miriam Ruiz <little.miry@gmail.com> wrote:
> > We still have to decide whether this is a one time case, whether it
> > can happen again, if we want to implement ACLs, if all this has scare
> > other potential contributors out, so that they won't do stuff fearing
> > they might make mistakes and so on, so please don't close the thread.
> > The first thing I'd like to calmly decide is whether we might want
> > ACLs or not. I'm not personally convinced of any option.
>
> I think that ACL are not a solution: they will be a pain to get
> working and to maintain. And also, if I understand rights the ACL are
> about allowing one to write on certain directories of the repository,
> but not other ? Then, I don't see much benefits: would there be
> packages that one can blunder, but others one shouldn't ?
>
> I think it is best to advocate either kicking out of the project or
> at least temporarily suspending completely write access to the
> repository. The member targeted by this measures could then prove
> his/her goodwill by submitting patches to other members.
>
> As for joining the team, I find that the current way to do that is
> reasonable. The more there is measures to get into the team, the less
> contributors there will be (as for myself, I wouldn't have joined if I
> had to undergo a test of any kind...). Maybe the first commits should
> be watched closely to spot early enough problematic commits/commiters
> ? It should appear quickly if bad commits are a result of clumsiness
> or beginners' mistakes on a ground of good faith or if they are due
> to real carelessness. We don't need team members from the second
> category, but we do want to teach the first one.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Vincent
>
>
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