On Jul 22, 2010, at 8:01 AM, Jeff Squyres wrote:

> On Jul 22, 2010, at 9:54 AM, Ralph Castain wrote:
> 
>> We used to have the branches "locked" to all but the gatekeeper to prevent 
>> this kind of mistake. Did this change? Or did you forget to lock the 1.5 
>> branch?
> 
> We changed it for v1.5 -- they're *not* locked because Ralph (back when Ralph 
> was the RM from LANL with me) and I anticipated letting developers commit 
> their "larger" features over to the release branch themselves and spare some 
> GK pain.

Ah yes - I remember now. However, I thought we were going to lock it, and then 
selectively unlock it when a particular update was approved. Guess I 
misunderstood at the time.

Anyway, I would suggest doing it that way.

> 
> E.g., an ORTE refresh may take some pain and iteration to get right.  So let 
> Ralph do it himself rather than do it via George/GK proxy.
> 
> Similar for hwloc issues.  Similar for ROMIO refresh.  ...etc.
> 
> Instead, however, we might want to change the permissions to lock it down, 
> and then selectively unlock it.  Hindsight is 20-20.  :-)
> 
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