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

[Mathieu Roy]

Derek Neighbors <address@hidden> said:

> 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.

CVS log every commits. So it's very easy to see who does what and
when. So it does not seems so amazing to me.

> > 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.

The only purpose of adding thoses members to the project list is to
make them feeling happy? 

Why not adding a CREDITS file? It's probably better.


> > 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?  

I do not know. Laurent, can you state on this point?

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Mathieu Roy
 
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