Re: Proposal to deploy GitLab on gnome.org

[Christoph Reiter <reiter christoph gmail com>]

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 7:03 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?

It's quite hard to get commit access atm because you have to be
trusted initially. If a maintainer can give commit access to one repo
he/she watches anyway there is less trust needed in the beginning. Or
if a new contributor wants to take over an abandoned project.