Re: Alioth → Salsa

[Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>]

On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 05:05:06PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 15:09:27 +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 01:00:10PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 10:27:49AM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> > > > In a group structure of
> > > > 
> > > > perl-team
> > > >   modules
> > > >   interpreter
> > > > 
> > > > anyone who is granted access to perl-team will have the access copied to
> > > > any subgroup, ie modules and interpreter. Anyone with access to modules
> > > > will have it only there, not in interpreter. And also, anyone with
> > > > access in perl-team can have different access in a subgroup, but that
> > > > needs to be explicitly set.
> > > 
> > > Sounds like this can definitely work then. I'm fine with this arrangement;
> > > it seems the neatest to me.
> > 
> > Yeah, sounds good to me as well!
> 
> Thanks for your help, Ganneff, and Dom&Niko for your approval.
> 
> There's one detail left where I'm not sure how to handle this
> structure- and permissions-wise. Quoting from my first mail in this
> thread:
> 
>       currently we have
>       + meta.git
>       + website.git
>       + scripts.git
>       + packages/
>         lib.*-perl.git
>         ...
>       + attic/
>         lib.*-perl.git
>         ...
>       + do we want to keep this structure? probably yes;
> 
> So besides a subgroup ("packages" →) "modules" and the new
> "interpreter" subgroup we currently also have some more repos and a
> directory ("attic"). And we probably want a system where permissions
> are separate for "interpreter" on the one hand and everything else on
> the other hand.
> 
> If we more or less keep the structure as above we could add
> members/permissions for "perl-team" but then would have to lower
> permissions for interpreter explicitly; or we'd have to add members
> for "modules" and "attic" and whatnot separately. Sounds a bit
> complicated and error-prone.
> 
> 
> Or maybe we throw everything under "modules" except "interpreter":
> 
> group perl-team
>     subgroup interpreter
>         project perl.git
>     subgroup modules
>         subgroup packages
>             project libfoo-perl.git
>             project libbar-perl.git
>         subgroup attic
>             project libbaz.git
>         meta.git
>         website.git
>         scripts.git
> 
> Maybe a bit complicated with many levels but then we can set
> permissions as in Ganneff's mail, and after all it's just about paths
> which are consumed by scripts ...

Sorry for the delay in responding to this point. "scripts" contains
things relevant to the interpreter pacakging too, sort of. So could
be a top-levl thing. Maybe website too, though that presumably depends
on how it will be used with gitlab pages.

Dominic.