On 4/4/07, Dennis Lundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Niall Pemberton wrote:
> On 4/4/07, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On 4/4/07, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > On 4/4/07, Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > > Can anyone say what the usual practice is for assigning groups/roles
>> > > for people once they become a committer?
>> > >
>> > > Theres a "Jakarta Developer" group - it gets you "committer" role for
>> > > Commons Lang and JCI but strangely nothing else.
>> > >
>> > > Would be simpler if it was documented somewhere.
>> >
>> > Yeah, it's a bit of a mess.
>> >
>> > The new JIRA release added the concept of project roles - which is
>> > great for many Apache projects. However we want to be able to grant
>> > project roles to N JIRA projects at the same time and it doesn't help
>> > with that.
>> >
>> > So we need to stay on the old system of assigning a group to the
>> > project, rather than messing around with roles too much (though the
>> > roles stuff does allow for permission to be granted in the short term
>> > while a request for being added to the group is made).
>> >
>> > Jeff did a bulk reconfiguration of JIRA and it was only afterwards
>> > that I understood sufficiently that it won't help us much. So now we
>> > need to go ahead and add the jakarta-developers group to each project
>> > role administrator bit.
>>
>> *pondering*
>>
>> Might be eaier to setup a Jakarta Permission that sets the group as
>> having read/write by default, instead of using the Standard Permission
>> and doing lots of configuring. That should be doable I think.
>
> I bow to your greater (and my lack of) Jira knowledge - but seeing
> that "Jakarta Devs" causes someone to automatically get "JCI and LANG
> commiter role" - shouldn't we just have two groups that do the same
> for all Commons. I was thinking something like
>
> "Commons Committer" group --> commiter role on all components
> "Jakarta PMC" --> pmc role on all jakarta sub-projects
This sound good to me. Then as Henri said, we should set up a new
Permission Scheme. We now have a JIRA installation at my day job, so I
have taken some time to experiment with groups and permissions. If you
feel comfortable with me being a JIRA admin here, I could try to set
this up.
Far me comfortable with you doing it than me - thats for sure ;-)
Niall
> Niall
>
>> Hen
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Dennis Lundberg
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