On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 6:10 AM, j. van den hoff <[email protected]>
wrote:

> a colleague is considering to use fossil in a setup where he (the group
> leader) supervises several students having dedicated tasks within a larger
> project. what he would like to do is
>
> * set up master repo
>
> * give student(s) clone/pull/push permisisons for the repo
>
> * require student(s) to branch immediately to individual "feature"
> branches (not fossil private branches, or anything, but just an ordinary
> branch assigned to the person and his task)
>
> * request students to perform all work on their individual branches, while
> allowing them to merge in changes from trunk.
>
> * supervisor looks at results/milestones of students in turn and merges
> the branches into trunk as he sees fit.
>
> the "request to work on branch" is the catch: he wants to ensure that
> students can never mess up trunk, i.e. must technically not be able to
> merge anything into trunk. in the end he asks for branch-specific user
> capabilities. my understanding is that this is not possible in fossil. if
> so, are there any recommendations how a simple and easily manageable
> workflow having this functionality (prevent trunk from getting spoiled)
> could look like?
>
> or are there better workflows/alternatives which would serve such a
> hierarchical development model? it should be a frequent requirement...
>
>
> thx/j
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