On Sat, 23 May 2015, Joao Eduardo Luis wrote:
> On 18/05/15 05:40, Sage Weil wrote:
> > As the number of people contributing code grows, we've added more and more
> > people to the github ceph org who have write access to ceph.git. Those
> > people can merge pull requests and can also push branches directly to the
> > repo.
> >
> > We also use ceph.git as a source for the test build infrastrucure
> > (gitbuilders) to generate packages for QA or hot fixes and make check
> > tests. This leads to an every-growing body of wip-* branches in the repo
> > (which is annoying), and also means that in order to build something to
> > test in QA you also get the ability to (say) push directly to master.
> >
> > How about we instead
> >
> > - create a second repo named something like ceph-ci.git (that's the best
> > I can come up with at the moment)
> > - add this as a second source for all gitbuilders (they can poll a list)
> > - move all wip-* branches here
> > - create a new github team with contributing developers who can push to
> > this repo and are trusted not to wreak havoc on the builders
> > - remove all the cruft from ceph.git, so that it's just master, next, the
> > stable branches, release tags, and anything else similarly important.
> > - restrict ceph.git write access to core developers
> >
> > This will improve security somewhat and reduce the risk of an accidental
> > push to an important branch.
> >
> > It may also reduce the risk associated with accidental force pushes
> > (something we've hemmed and hawed about recently) by limiting the circle
> > of people who can write to ceph.git and also changing workflows so that it
> > is almost never used directly...
>
> I think this is a great idea!
>
> 'ceph-ci' also looks like a simple enough name conveying its purpose, even
> though the 'continuous' part is not necessarily true (but it's trivial to
> type, so it gets my vote).
I've created the ceph-gi repository. I think the next step is to redo all
the gitbuilders to pull form both sources.
http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11747
And then we'll need to change up the github groups and permissions
http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11748
sage
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