#5418: Adopt policy that SCM request should be accepted from authorized users only

Fedora Release Engineering rel-eng at fedoraproject.org
Fri Jan 4 23:09:12 UTC 2013


#5418: Adopt policy that SCM request should be accepted from authorized users only
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  Reporter:  ppisar  |      Owner:  rel-eng@…
      Type:  defect  |     Status:  new
 Milestone:          |  Component:  git
Resolution:          |   Keywords:  SCM
Blocked By:          |   Blocking:
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Comment (by toshio):

 I am a little leary of this.  there are definitely cases where it wouldbe
 time consuming to require that all requests must come from an acl holder.
 just as one example, when someone leaves red hat, it is common for their
 manager or their manager via spot to let us know that package ownership
 should change.  with this rule we'd either need to wait out the non-
 responsive maintainer time period or write a red hat specific exception.

 in the specific case of adding branches, I wonder what we are protecting
 against.  we have been trying (sometimes with less success than others) to
 get package maintainers to think less about owning a package and more
 about being part of a team that builds fedora together.  I think trying to
 lock down who can make acl requests too much might be a step away from
 this goal.

 if we have very few solid problems with the current openness it might be
 better to stick with an ask forgiveness instead of permission policy.

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