svn usable ?

[Holger Levsen]

Hi,

On Tuesday 23 August 2005 13:43, you wrote:
> I didn't change anything on the svn repository until it was
> created. It's read only access (I didn't get any complain about the
> acces to is) but if that's OK for you you can use it now. I think we
> did not finished the discussion if write access is needed for other
> peoples branch, or how other will manage their branches. Do you have a
> proposal for this? Should be arrange an IRC meeting for discussing how
> to do decentralized branches with FAI?

My proposal is: 
- I'll write a howto work with people branches.
- I can also setup commit mails for the fai subversion directory.
- give anybody you remotly trust (henning g., henning s., michael m., me, plus 
plus) write access but tell them _only_ to commit to their people branch.
- if anybody commits (without being allowed to do so, the default is no) to 
trunk / other branches than the people branches (like stable) revert the 
changes and warn the developer.
- if anybody commits twice wrongly, remove write access.


IMO this will work pretty well. (As people who will get access want to help 
fai and not sabotage your work.) Technically it's possible with a pre-commit 
hook or with webdac to restrict write access, but IMHO this is additional 
unneeded and extra work as the above described social measures will work 
equally well if not better because it's less work.

If you, Thomas, accept this proposal I promise to write the above mentioned 
howto and setup the commit mails within the next eight days - this is 
realistic as I allready have done that before. If you prefer the technical 
solution, we'll have to look into this.

I would send the commit mails to this mailing-list address and people can then 
filter them into another local folder if they like. Another list is also fine 
with me.

If you have any questions or concerns, please voice them here, I'm curious 
about your comments and opinion.


regards,
	Holger
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