On Thursday, February 17, 2011 07:19:29 pm Martin Pool wrote: > On 18 February 2011 10:43, Scott Kitterman <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thursday, February 17, 2011 06:33:35 pm John Arbash Meinel wrote: > >> On 2/17/2011 4:59 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > >> > 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. > >> > >> Hmmm. I don't see your other message. > >> > >> As I understand it, things like ~ubuntu-branches. But I could be wrong. > > > > I don't understand it either, that's why I ask. In the original message > > option 1 started, "Don't allow branches owned by non-celebrities to > > become the official branch for a package." Without knowing what a > > celebrity is in this context it's a bit difficult to commenton the > > proposal. > > As jml said, it's a user specially known to the Launchpad codebase. > For instance, ~admins is in that category because they have some > permissions that you cannot obtain other than by becoming a member of > that team. > > In this case, it would be that Launchpad would have some code to say > ~ubuntu-branches or similar must be the only owner of official package > branches. (Or perhaps it's not even strictly necessary to make it > exactly a celebrity, as long as there are other limits on changing > official branches.) > > Anyhow, the gist of it would be that it would still have a nominal > owner, but an owner that no human can access. The only access would > be through Ubuntu package access control rules.
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