True that. On the other hand, we have a lot of powerful tools these days, and a mistake can cause a lot of time and trouble to clean up. In KDE, the permissions have always been wide-open for anybody with a devel status too. And yet all but the smallest of commits are now subject to review.
I think that we are pretty liberal at handing out ninja status still. Valorie On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 1:00 AM, Harald Sitter <[email protected]> wrote: > Members having access to all venues of contribution was not a result > of legacy, it was a conscious decision made at the time we introduced > source code version control. We found that we trust all members to act > in the best interest of the project and work towards the same goal. > > It is truly a sad day that members of Kubuntu cannot be trusted > anymore. I always looked with fondness at the fact that membership > actually meant something more than been-around-long-enough. > > :( > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 12:16 AM, Valorie Zimmerman > <[email protected]> wrote: >> In the early days of Kubuntu, all the Kubuntu Members were packagers >> and developers. Since the community has grown, we now have some >> Kubuntu Members who are not packagers, developers or coders. Yet one >> of the privileges of Kubuntu Membership has long been the right to >> commit changes to our packaging and packages. >> >> The Kubuntu Council, after extensive discussion which you can read in >> the archives of our list on our Launchpad page [1], has updated our >> Kubuntu Policies [2] and Launchpad. >> >> Since packagers and developers are already members of the teams which >> have the permissions to commit, change or upload as needed, this >> should have no effect on Kubuntu Members, but it will improve the >> security of our code and packages on LP. >> >> Valorie, for the Kubuntu Council >> >> 1. https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-council >> 2. https://community.kde.org/Kubuntu/Policies >> >> -- >> http://about.me/valoriez >> >> -- >> kubuntu-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel > > -- > kubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel -- http://about.me/valoriez -- kubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
