Is there any value to per-Fedora branch ACLs?

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Tue Dec 7 21:55:26 UTC 2010


On 12/07/2010 11:52 AM, Till Maas wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 10:20:28AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> While I'm looking into the git setup and ACLs and all this, I have a
>> question.
>>
>> Is anybody seeing any real value of having different commit ACLs per
>> Fedora branch?  I've seen some argument for EPEL vs Fedora, but is there
>> real value in ACLs for f13, f14, devel, etc...?
> 
> There should be at least a distinction between EOL releases and non EOL
> releases, e.g. someone having only commit access for F12 must not have
> commit access for F13+ currently, because usually only ownership / ACLs
> for current Fedora releases are up to date in PackageDB. 

I don't think the above really means we need different ACLs per branch,
just that if we did flatten then we need to flatten them as a union of
current active branches and not any EOL data.

> And there
> should still be a distinction in PackageDB for different
> (co)maintainer for different Fedora releases.

For what reason?

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