[Mageia-dev] Some changes on svn

Thu Apr 21 23:50:21 CEST 2011

Le jeudi 21 avril 2011 à 22:49 +0200, Michael Scherer a écrit :
+> Hi,
+> 
+> I have done some change regarding svn access, and while I am carefully
+> testing to not break it, if someone has a problem, please report it
+> ( with your login, telling if you can connect or not ).
+> 
+> The goal is to simplify the way we manage everything, so translators can
+> later be able to commit their work.
+
+So it seems to work fine. 
+
+But now, this lead me to another question :
+- how do we manage commit access to the repository soft/
+
+For now, only packagers can access it, mainly because that's the only
+group we had at that time. But in fact, I see no reason to use this
+group more than another. 
+
+We have a few choice : 
+- let anybody commit , all people in shell_access group could do it.
+Right now, that mean sysadmins, web developer, forum developers,
+translators, packagers and apprentices.
+
+- create a group for developers, and let them have access on the svn,
+and add i18n committers on a subset.
+
+I was about to do the 2nd stuff, but looking for documentation, the svn
+book convinced me to do the first one (
+http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.serverconfig.pathbasedauthz.html ).
+
+But this solution kinda negate the goal and the existence of "developer
+team". On the other hand, the team do not exist right now.
+
+What do people think of it ?
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+