On Thursday, February 17, 2011 05:20:07 pm John Arbash Meinel wrote: > On 2/14/2011 11:34 PM, Martin Pool wrote: > > We have a question in <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/516709> about > > what the permissions on official package branches ought to be, and how > > they should be explained to the user. > > Obviously people feel very passionate about this subject, given the > intense discussion. </sarcasm>
So far I asked what a "celebrity" is in this context and no one answered. > > The basic thing is that Launchpad knows who is allowed to write to a > > package, and it already has special code that gives those people > > read/write access to the package branch. In the common case where the > > package branch is owned by a bot/celebrity that will never do anything > > itself, this is fine. However, it is perhaps a problem if an existing > > branch owned by a human is marked as official for a particular > > package. > > So that means that if I have upload rights to 'bzr', then I can push to > lp:ubuntu/natty/bzr regardless of who the actual owner is? > > > At the moment the permissions are unioned: the nominal owner of the > > branch keeps write access, and the package uploaders get right access > > too. > > > > There are a few options here and we'd appreciate hearing from Ubuntu > > people how they think it should work: > > > > 0- No change: the nominal owner keeps write access. > > > > 1- Don't allow branches owned by non-celebrities to become the > > official branch for a package. Instead, you need to push from that > > branch into the real official branch. > > I'm in favor of this one myself. ~ubuntu-foo can own all of the official > packaging branches, and the users have rights to upload to the > appropriate branches. > > > 2- When the branch becomes an official package branch, the owner loses > > write access (unless they're also an uploader.) That's what > > <https://code.launchpad.net/~jml/launchpad/owner-cannot-write-to-official > > -branch-516709/+merge/29446> would do. It seems potentially confusing. > > > > 3- Something else? > > > > Let us know what you think either here or on that bug. Also if you > > think we ought to ask eg the TB, please tell me. > > > > Martin > > John > =:-> -- ubuntu-distributed-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-distributed-devel
