Re: Two new projects in the CVS and 5th Toe

["Seth Nickell" <seth gnome org>]

On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 1:36PM -0800, Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 16:04, Seth Nickell wrote:
> >  Is there a problem this is solving? More barriers (to integration /
> >  cross module work / casual fixes) does not seem like something we 
> > really
> >  need right now.
>
> I think it would be a good idea. I haven't seen the handhelds.org
> system, but things could basically be as simple as a file in each
> directory that could contain a line ALL or a list of people with
> commit rights.
>
> Then you give some generous set of people (release team, etc) rights
> to commit everywhere.
>
> I've almost never wanted to commit something for the first time to
> a module without asking the maintainer for an OK first.

The problem is that it takes a real amount of extra work to commit a 
change to the permissions file than to say "yes, this patch looks good 
please commit it". seems trivial, but I fear combined with maintainer 
laziness will result in less openness to contribution. Butterfly beating 
its wings in brazil and all that stuff....

I can appreciate gtk wanting this, but I would hope most modules would 
not implement per-module permissions even if they were available.

-Seth