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

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Wed Dec 5 12:59:28 UTC 2007


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?

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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