[Savannah-hackers] Re: CVS Write Access When Adding A User

[Derek Neighbors]

On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 14:01, Mathieu Roy wrote:
> Derek Neighbors <address@hidden> said:
> 
> > I went to add some users to Savannah for GNU Enterprise and it worked
> > just fine.  However, I noticed that it gives cvs write access when
> > adding a user and there is no way to 'remove' this.  I think this is a
> > significant bug (or error in requirements). 
> > 
> > We would like to have anyone working on the project that has copyright
> > assignment to be listed as a member, but we dont want everyone to have
> > cvs write access.  Instead we like to follow more a Linux Kernel
> > methodology.  Where we have 'leaders' to elements of the source code and
> > patches get sent to those leaders for review and the leader commits the
> > patch.
> > 
> > Is there some way we can add members and not automatically give cvs
> > write access?
> 
> You are the first one to propose such a feature. Technically, we can
> implement it, but do you think it will be really usefull? 

Certainly.  I am amazed that bigger projects give CVS write access to
anyone participating in their project.

> For instance, normally someone can send a patch to a project without
> really being member of the project.

If you have someone that regularly sends patches and does testing and
does documentation, they generally want ACKNOWLEDGEMENT they are part of
the project.  That is why this request came up.  I have 4 requests in
our bug tracking system from people that have contributed and want to be
listed as 'members' of the project on savannah, and I cant meet that
request because if I do so it gives them CVS write access.

> We havent made any distinction on the subject since it would require
> more things to do than in the other case (for bugs etc...), but if you
> really find this usefull, why not thinking about it. 

I am not hell bent on it, but it would make contributors of our project
happy.

> I must tell you that we have currently other top-priority but feel
> free to submit a bug (choosing enhancement) report for the project
> Savannah at http://sv.gnu.org/bugs/?group=savannah

There is no way to simply forward this message somewhere and have it
create a bug report?  

Thank you for responding to the original request in a timely manner.
 
-- 
Derek Neighbors
GNU Enterprise
http://www.gnuenterprise.org
address@hidden

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