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cvs_acls script?? Is this usable?



Hi,

On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 12:03:52AM +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 11:30:04PM +0100, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 10:58:03PM +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > > > Proposal:
> > > > 
> > > > A nice script could be written to checksum scripts and create a
> > > > signable list of trustable scripts on alioth. 
> > > 
> > > I thought about this route.  But where and what permission to use to
> > > store them.  And where you keep these scripts.  If these script are to
> > > be kept in the CVS archive, this should be a group/project with 
> > > fewer member.
> > > 
> > 
> > Ownership of the list is not essential. 
> 
> True.
> 
> > Proper signing is a requirement to consider the list trustable. And
> > the two scripts will be subject to changes rarely.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > > > Then, another script on gluck could import only  files in that list
> > > > after proper checking.  One of the PMs could so sign the list when all
> > > > its files had been checked.  This could ensure that only coherent and
> > > > trustable scripts are used on gluck, and could avoid error-prone
> > > > human-based copies.
> > > 
> > > If you can make simple and clean script to all these without any
> > > compication, that will be nice.  But until then, 2 CVSROOT is the only
> > > simple and sure solution.  I am open for this fancy scheme if I see the
> > > working solution.
> > > 
> > 
> > I'll see what I can do about that. 
> 
> When you make one, please make signiture per each document tree.  So
> proofreading of script are done by each responsible.
> 
> For example, following sections should be able to be signed by the 
> different DDs.
> 
>  *   release-notes
>  *   dselect-beginner
>  *   intro-i18n
>  *   project-history
>  *   debian-euro-support

By the way, does anyone used script cvs_acls explaned below.

https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=772&group_id=1#docscvsacls

This seems ready made script used in SF.NET CVS.

This allow much more control.

I see many CVS uses it by googling...



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