PLEASE READ: provenpackager reseed

[Patrice Dumas]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 06:04:38PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 08:37:29AM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > > 
> > There was a meeting at one point (I think FESCo but I could be wrong)
> > where the cvsadmin groups was given responsibility for putting new
> > members in cvsadmin.  I believe that this technically covers all the
> > groups except secondary arches -- who have the same powers but different
> > groups and different responsibilities.
> > 
> > Just pointing out the history; not necessarily what should be.
> 
> It is somehow odd to have a complex trust system with many levels
> of control (roughly packager -> provenpackager -> sponsor) for 
> contributors that have less power, while there is no apparent 
> control/procedure for the cvsadmin group. At least people having
> cvsadmin powers granted should be provenpackagers, and maybe 
> cvsadmin members could be identified and something about them 
> could be added in the policies pages, be it only a mention to an 
> informal process to become cvsadmin.

To answer to myself, now that I stand corrected, cvsadmin is outside
of the packager trust system, and in the infras trust system, so it is 
right as is (more precisely I don't have an opinion on it).

--
Pat