changing the format of owners.list

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Thu Feb 15 22:18:44 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 14:28 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> To better enable co-maintainership, the format of owners.list is going
> to change slightly on Monday, February 18th, at 3PM EST (2000 UTC), give
> or take a few minutes.
> 
> The change is that the 'initialowner' field will now be a comma-separated
> list of maintainers. The first e-mail address listed will be the 'primary'
> maintainer listed as the owner in bugzilla; all other address will be
> co-maintainers.
> 
> Hence, if you currently have co-maintainers listed in initialcclist,
> you'll want them moved to the owner field. Feel free to notify
> cvsadmin-members at fedoraproject.org, or set the review bug to fedora-cvs?
> in bugzilla, and we'll get this taken care of.

And all of this is going to magically work with the ACL system recently
put in place?  As in, for new packages both maintainers will have commit
access, etc?

I'm assuming it's not going to break ACLs for current packages, but I'm
curious about new ones.

josh




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