[Mageia-dev] Some changes on svn

Fri Apr 22 01:37:12 CEST 2011

On 21 April 2011 23:50, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+> 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
+>
+>
+
+I am not an SVN expert, but I'd go with option 1, the groups you
+listed should have access to /soft/, and if something goes wrong, the
+mistake can always be rectified and the person who did it will be told
+off and shown the wrong of his ways; that and all the people in those
+groups are expected to act responsibly with the privileges they're
+given...
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+