+1 if well used/tested svn commands for releasing are documented, committers without experience on release or svn can still use those properly.
-Rui On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 3:09 PM Stamatis Zampetakis <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 > > I always thought that committers had access to the dist repo and I was > completely fine with it. > > Everybody makes mistakes no matter if it is a committer or PMC so I don't > see a reason to have different read/write access to the repo. > > Best, > Stamatis > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 12:17 AM sebbaz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > On 2020/08/13 18:47:54, Julian Hyde <[email protected]> wrote: > > > +1 > > > > > > Clearly committers should have read and write access to all non-private > > information in a project. I don’t even think this needs a vote. If this > > discussion quickly reaches consensus, as I assume it will, let’s just > make > > it so. > > > > > > The hypothetical risk that a committer would (accidentally or > > deliberately) cause damage is a non-issue. In source control systems such > > as SVN or Git, any change can be rolled back. > > > > Please note that the dist.apache.org release directory is very different > > in this regard. > > > > If artifacts are published by moving them to the release directory, it is > > *not* easily possible to revert publication > > > > This is because the release directory is used to distribute the files to > > the world-wide mirror system. > > And to the ASF archive system, which would require Infra assistance to > > revert. > > > > Mistakes are not easily recovered. > > > > This is why the default is for PMC members only. > > > > > Julian > > > > > > > > > > On Aug 13, 2020, at 8:07 AM, Andrei Sereda <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > For the last two releases ([1] and [2]) committers were not able to > > > > finalize the release due to SVN restrictions. One of the PMC members > > had to > > > > step in order to distribute the artifacts. > > > > > > > > By default, only PMCs are allowed to make changes to dist > > > > <https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/calcite/> SVN > repository. > > > > > > > > This can be changed > > > > < > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-20681?focusedCommentId=17177075&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#comment-17177075 > > >. > > > > According to INFA: > > > > > > > >> A link on this Jira to an email discussion where it is approved will > > be > > > > fine > > > > > > > > PMCs please vote on this proposal. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Andrei. > > > > > > > > [1] > > > > > > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rbd84cf78ef250685a05fdb9c70708daa6558619093f510d27aabc1af%40%3Cdev.calcite.apache.org%3E > > > > [2] > > > > > > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra180b94d785d5575558ab10d919521a6395fcce8899ed1dcda78d004%40%3Cdev.calcite.apache.org%3E > > > > > > > > >
