Re: Minutes of the GNOME Foundation Board meeting 28 November 2000

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Daniel Veillard <Daniel Veillard w3 org> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 03:01:23AM +0500, JP Rosevear wrote:
> > On 29 Nov 2000 20:29:58 +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > >  - gnome.org hosting
> > >   3 machines at a colocation near RH.
> > >    there have been occasionnal downtimes 2-3 weeks in average
> > >    some software seems to eat all resources and get it down
> > >    there is a couple of technical solutions:
> > >     + process limits
> > >     + getting hardware raid + LFS
> > >     + getting a serial <-> VGA
> > >    Problem is people commiting when not appropriate
> > 
> > I'm unclear as to what this last line means.
> 
>   One of the most common problems which led to the discussion whether
> we should add ACL (Access Control Lists) to the CVs base is that there
> have been case of people who were granted access to do a specific
> action on the code base and who extended that priviledge and made
> unappropriate changes to the code.

Hmm, aren't maintainers normally reading over cvs-commits-list and checking
whether there's something wrong.

Btw. as one of cvsmaster gnome org, may I ask the board to talk/decide about
a new policy for creating CVS accounts ? Currently the "policy" is something
between "ask Miguel" and "ask the maintainer". Miguel seems to be forwarding
all such requests to me without any check whatsoever while Elliot and me are
doing some more checks (module maintainer / translation coordinator must
approve etc.). So it is very unclear how to get a new CVS account and it also
depends on who you ask.

It'd be good if the board can make a more formal policy for this.

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Martin Baulig
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