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



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



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