Re: Proposal to deploy GitLab on gnome.org

[Kunal Jain <kunaalus gmail com>]

I agree with Ray. Open ACLs is a big + for GNOME and there are no
significant evidence of abuse of that. Big NO for the artificial
barriers by fine grained ACLs

On 16 May 2017 at 23:51, Ray Strode <halfline gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
> > 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.
>
> is that true? I mean you have to have someone with commit access vouch for
> you but that's a pretty low bar. I don't think it should be any lower than
> that, but I also wouldn't want to see it higher than that.  GNOME has had
> open ACLs from the beginning and it's a good thing! There's no evidence of
> abuse, we shouldn't go locking everything down just because we can.
>
> IMO, there should be three access tiers:
>
> 1) Can report issues and propose fixes
> 2) Can triage issues
> 3) Can fix issues
>
> Anything more granular than that is a bad idea. It just introduces
> artificial barriers that people will run into. (What happens when a
> maintainer goes AWOL ?)
>
> Let's keep things open like we always have!
>
> --Ray
>
>
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Kind Regards,
Kunal