Re: Sandbox SVN repository or module

["James Henstridge" <james jamesh id au>]

On 05/03/07, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the meeting that was held to talk about SoC, people agreed that it'd
> be great to have a central place where students would put their code.
> This was an issue last year for us.
>
> It was suggested that they could use bzr/git/something-distributed, but
> it would be better that they use the same tool as the one we're using in
> GNOME, and also I know at least one student who had difficulties with
> using a distributed vcs last year. That's why we'd love to have svn.
>
> I'm reluctant to have the code in the main repository, since I guess it
> means that our student would have an access to all of our code (but
> maybe I'm wrong and we can have some ACL?), and it's not easy to
> "cancel" an account (you appear to be not nice when you do so). Thus, a
> separate repository would seem like an interesting idea.

Note that there isn't a single Subversion repository on svn.gnome.org:
there is one per module.  So it shouldn't be a big deal to create
additional repositories for each SoC project (this also means there is
no imports/exports necessary to make it part of the main collection of
SVN repos).

As far as permissions go, it should be possible to handle this with
standard UNIX permissions: simply don't add the SoC students to the
group with write access to the main Subversion repositories.

This still leaves the question of who should have write access to the
SoC repos though: just the student?  The mentor?  Other developers?
All SoC students?

James.