ACL removal day?!

[David Woodhouse]

On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 11:36 -0400, Peter Jones wrote:
> David Woodhouse wrote:
> > It may make sense to say that only the package owner(s) can push updates
> > to the public, but just committing and building should be unrestricted.
> 
> I think this is another case where too much regulation hurts us.  The
> policy shouldn't be "other people can't do it".  It should be "act
> responsibly."  Every once in a while, some package maintainer might have
> good cause to modify somebody else's package and push it.  Usually, it
> won't be the case.  If there's a good reason.

Indeed.

> I also think your (later) comment on irc was more correct than your 
> comment here -- if you're not the maintainer, you should be able to 
> change things and even build.  But you shouldn't be able to push to 
> repos.  The maintainer (or rel-eng) need to do that part.

Perhaps not 'more correct', but just 'more coherent'. I think that's
actually what I was trying to say.

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dwmw2