Thanks for the clarification, Sebb. We now know, and accept, that the risk is non-zero.
> On Aug 13, 2020, at 2:17 PM, 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 >> >>
