Given we have interest in the podling from a number of ASF committers already involved in other projects, I think this might be beneficial to NPanday as well. What do others think?
Cheers, Brett Begin forwarded message: > From: Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com> > Subject: Simplifying repository permissions > Date: 8 December 2011 4:18:18 PM AEDT > To: gene...@incubator.apache.org > Reply-To: gene...@incubator.apache.org > List-Id: <general.incubator.apache.org> > > Greets, > > Roy Fielding posted here in general@incubator a few weeks ago urging that all > podling committers be unified into a single group for the purposes of ASF > repository permissions: > > http://s.apache.org/0HY > > I *suggest* that incubator change the procedure such that all committers > (or at least all committers within a single LDAP group) have access to all > incubator areas and that new people simply be requested to only commit > within areas for which they have been given permission by the podling > developers. > > The Apache Lucy PPMC has now voted to go one further and grant all ASF > Committers access to our corner of the ASF common repository. > > Discussion: http://s.apache.org/WwB > Vote: http://s.apache.org/i8J > > There are two primary rationales for making this change. First, we make > life easier for Infra -- especially if other projects follow our lead. > Second, we lower the barrier to entry for other ASF committers to > contribute to Lucy. > > Is it practical to delete the line enumerating Lucy's committers from > asf-authorization-template, and to change the permissions for /incubator/lucy > to be either "@committers = rw" or "@incubator = rw"? We would like to > implement our resolution to the fullest extent possible within the practical > constraints of the Incubator. > > Some concerns were raised during the followups to Roy's post about > machine-readable records of committers/PPMC members, but it does not seem as > though any such machine-readable document exists today which is definitive > regarding PPMC composition -- or even podling committership ranks, since > odftoolkit does not have a line in asf-authorization-template. For what it's > worth, we maintain our Committer/PPMC roster at > <http://incubator.apache.org/lucy/people.html>. > > Cheers, > > Marvin Humphrey > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > -- Brett Porter br...@apache.org http://brettporter.wordpress.com/ http://au.linkedin.com/in/brettporter
