Hi folks,

Currently all Fink team members at SourceForge.net have full write access to the entire CVS repository. This imposes some problems on us: since everybody gets full power, we can only allow people in that we "trust" to not mess up anything by accident, or whatever else. For this reason, we have only 29 team members right now even though we have like 120+ package maintainers. But when it comes to using the bug tracker, if a package is maintained by somebody who is not a team member, we have to point him manually to the bug item (by sending them an email). And once the problem is fixed, a team member has to close the item.

Enters cvs_acls (see <http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=772&group_id=1>). With this script, we can specify CVS write access on a per-user/per-module basis. That means we can add tracker-only project members; and we can also control who can commit where.

I will switch over Fink to use this now. The default for all users will be no write access at all. The three admins will have write access to everything. Doc-only people can only write to web. Finally, a bigger group of people can write to everything (except CVSROOT). The detailed list can be found here:
<http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/fink/CVSROOT/avail>


Note: I made the list of who has write access based on the commits of approximately the last 3 weeks. If you are not on this list, don't worry, just drop me an email and I will add you. I just wanted to keep this clean by not just adding all current project members.

I will probably further refine the access rights in the near future; there is a brief TODO list contained in the file linked above.


Bye,


Max



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