Re: commit access right for all DDs to our repository
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 04:39:52PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> the collab-maint project on alioth enables (using ACLs) all DD
> accounts on alioth to have commit access right to the repository.
so, this excludes *-guest accounts?
> In the spirit of diminishing the sense of "ownership" of packages in our
> distribution, and to gain other side effect benefits (e.g. the fact that
> NMU patches can be directly committed in a repository) I'm hereby
> proposing to require a similar setup for our repository. Of course the
> same spirit of NMUs will govern the changes and DDs willing to commit
> stuff are required (moral suasion) to document their changes in
> debian/changelog.
>
> Practically, I don't think this will change anything in our way of
> working and I doubt that anyone else will feel the need to commit stuff,
> but I believe this is the right way to go for the Debian project as a
> whole, and I hence hope our project will be among the firsts in adopting
> this policy.
No objection from me. -Ralf.
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