Am Samstag, 9. November 2019, 19:16:20 CET schrieb Ben Cooksley: > On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 6:04 AM Ingo Klöcker <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Samstag, 9. November 2019 01:20:01 CET Ben Cooksley wrote: > > > On top of this, i'd also like to remove commit access to it for > > > everyone but translators and those who need to work on the small > > > number of websites remaining on Subversion and only provision this for > > > people on an as-needed basis. > > > > > > In the next year or so i'd expect the remaining websites to complete > > > their migrations to Git, after which only translators would receive > > > access. > > > > Restricting access to the translations repository is against the letter of > > our manifesto which states > > "All source materials are hosted on infrastructure available to and > > writable by all KDE contributor accounts" > > https://manifesto.kde.org/commitments.html > > > > AFAIK, "all source materials" includes translations. > > > > There are a few reasonable exceptions for this requirement, e.g. for the > > sources of our websites, but I don't see a good reason for restricting > > access to the translations. > > > > I think restricting access to the translations will create a precedent for > > restricting access to other source materials and undermines the values > > stated in our manifesto. Therefore, I don't think we should go down this > > route. > The access isn't being *restricted* at all. > It is just something you have to request be enabled separately, and it > won't be withheld from anyone with a developer account should they > feel they need it.
This is a model we also see with rights to kick off build jobs on build.kde.org, and I think it does not work out: having to beg for access and having to wait for access being granted is an obstacle. Even more when this is nowhere documented, but a secret traded only in people's minds. So, by default there are de-facto restrictions experienced, and they get in the way of developer work-flows. My 2 cent on this matter when it comes to conditions decided about. Otherwise, thanks for all the admin work you are doing here once again :) Cheers Friedrich, who only an hour ago had to help someone kicking off builds jobs on CI, as he once got the access granted after poking a few times informally...
