ACL removal day?!

[Rahul Sundaram]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram (sundaram at fedoraproject.org) said: 
>> There is a pretty easy solution to that. Ask the maintainers. New 
>> package maintainers are likely to be not aware of the current policy of 
>> automatically adding ACL's to their packages. I suspect many of them 
>> would prefer to share the work in things that can be done by a group 
>> like rebuilding packages.
> 
> ... then they are able to remove them, and we can discuss changing the
> defaults/adding something to the CVS request form/whatever. I'm not
> seeing the problem here?

The need for ACL's by default that restrict the package to only the 
package maintainers is not clear and package maintainers are not aware 
that ACL are added by default to their packages. If it is explicitly 
documented that ACL's are added by default that solves the latter 
problem.  I would prefer that ACL are only added if explicitly requested 
since having a common pool allows some of the work (mass rebuilds, 
rebuilds for soname bumps, resolving conflicting files in between 
packages, E-V-R issues, security problems etc) to be shared by other 
package maintainers interested in maintaining the quality of the 
repository on the whole.

Rahul