[Gnu-arch-users] Re: practical questions of archive ownership

[Pau Aliagas]

On 1 Oct 2003, Miles Bader wrote:

> Charles Duffy <address@hidden> writes:
> > There certainly is no reason why archives aren't /right now/ writable by
> > more than one person; indeed, that works fine right now (I believe the
> > tutorial calls it the update/commit method of cooperation). However,
> > it's rarely used -- because it's not what most users of arch find in
> > practice the most convenient and natural way to work.
> 
> I think Joshua's initial point was good though -- current arch-using
> projects that I'm aware of do seem to have a strong maintainer who's in a
> natural place to pull from other's archives.  There are also technical
> reasons why the pull model is nice: it avoids issues of how to allow
> multiple people write-access to the same archive (it's often much easier
> to find ways to allow anonymous read access).

I've solved it very simply:
-create a user to own the repo
-for each deleoper
 * register the master archive via address@hidden
 * add ssh keys ~user/.ssh/authorized_keys
-commit/replay when needed

Pau