Undoing ACLs (was Re: Dealing with PPC in Fedora 9(+))

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Wed Dec 5 13:12:41 UTC 2007


Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:00:49 +0000
> David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
> 
>> (Although I don't feel wonderfully happy about accepting such rights
>> for myself alone when I feel strongly that _all_ Fedora contributors
>> should be able to commit to all packages. It's not as if we can't
>> revert stuff, and can't promote an attitude of violence towards
>> people who abuse the privilege, like we already have.)
> 
> This is actually a topic that has come up a few times.  A good number
> of previously core packages still have default locked down ACLs.  This
> was somewhat mandated by the general populace of core maintainers.
> However I think that the trial period is over and I hope that the
> Fedora maintainers at large have proved to be responsible about what
> they do, so that all maintainers should feel confident in opened
> packages.
> 
> I still want there to be an ACL system for when a maintainer strongly
> feels that his/her package should be kept to a small commit list.
> However the vast majority would be just fine open, and would promote
> more of a help you neighbor attitude if ACLs weren't in the way.
> 
> So I'd like to discuss the idea of having an automated "opening" of all
> ACLs that a maintainer can opt /out/ of should they choose.  Some
> methodology of tagging each package that should be opened and allowing
> some time for a maintainer to "untag" the package as it were to opt out
> of opening it.
> 
> I'm bouncing this back over to fedora-devel-list as that's where
> something like this should be brought up.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> 

+ a lott

Regards,

Hans





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