Re: Proposal to deploy GitLab on gnome.org

[mcatanzaro gnome org]

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Ray Strode <halfline gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 12:20 PM <mcatanzaro gnome org> wrote:
> > Another issue we haven't discussed yet is commit permissions. Right
> > now, everyone can commit anything to every repository, but with 
> > GitLab
> > we'll probably eventually want something more fine-grained where
> > *active* maintainers have more control over who is allowed to commit.
> uhh, why? I think the lack of fine grained ACLs is an extremely 
> useful feature of our current setup.  Are you concerned we might grow 
> abusers at some point?
>
> --Ray

Some maintainers want this, and I think that will be fine in the 
future. I don't really care much either way, because I've never seen 
any intentional abuse, and if someone commits something wrong to one of 
my projects I can simply revert it... which is very rare. But GitLab 
makes it easy to lock down permissions, and I hope we don't do that 
right away, when our build system is still very fragile and waiting for 
maintainers to approve build fixes is undesirable.

Michael