Re: Simplifying repository permissions

Hi,

If no one lodges a formal objection within the next 48 hours, I'll claim lazy
consensus and ask Infra to follow through with setting "@committers = rw" for
svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/lucy.

Marvin Humphrey

On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 09:18:18PM -0800, Marvin Humphrey wrote:
> Greets,
>
> Roy Fielding posted here in general@incubator a few weeks ago urging that all
> podling committers be unified into a single group for the purposes of ASF
> repository permissions:
>
> http://s.apache.org/0HY
>
> I *suggest* that incubator change the procedure such that all committers
> (or at least all committers within a single LDAP group) have access to all
> incubator areas and that new people simply be requested to only commit
> within areas for which they have been given permission by the podling
> developers.
>
> The Apache Lucy PPMC has now voted to go one further and grant all ASF
> Committers access to our corner of the ASF common repository.
>
> Discussion: http://s.apache.org/WwB
> Vote: http://s.apache.org/i8J
>
> There are two primary rationales for making this change. First, we make
> life easier for Infra -- especially if other projects follow our lead.
> Second, we lower the barrier to entry for other ASF committers to
> contribute to Lucy.
>
> Is it practical to delete the line enumerating Lucy's committers from
> asf-authorization-template, and to change the permissions for /incubator/lucy
> to be either "@committers = rw" or "@incubator = rw"? We would like to
> implement our resolution to the fullest extent possible within the practical
> constraints of the Incubator.
>
> Some concerns were raised during the followups to Roy's post about
> machine-readable records of committers/PPMC members, but it does not seem as
> though any such machine-readable document exists today which is definitive
> regarding PPMC composition -- or even podling committership ranks, since
> odftoolkit does not have a line in asf-authorization-template. For what it's
> worth, we maintain our Committer/PPMC roster at
> <http://incubator.apache.org/lucy/people.html>.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marvin Humphrey
>
>
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