What is the progress with the "shepherd" project that :jhford and :lightsofapollo were starting up back in Oslo? My hope has always been that developing good automation would keep us from ever having to close the tree.
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Dale Harvey <d...@arandomurl.com> wrote: > Didnt we previously agree we should use our self hosted git instance as > primary because it would make lives easier for sheriffs? > > > On 27 June 2014 09:04, Ed Morley <emor...@mozilla.com> wrote: > >> (If you are not on the mozilla-b2g owners team, you can stop reading now >> :-)) >> >> The mozilla-b2g Github organisation currently has 38 members of the >> owners team: >> https://github.com/orgs/mozilla-b2g/teams/owners >> >> Recently the main mozilla organisation culled their list of owners for >> security reasons. >> >> I believe we should do the same for mozilla-b2g, not just for security, >> but also to reduce the number of people who can (and do) accidentally push >> to gaia when the sheriffs have 'closed' the tree by revoking PUSH >> permissions to !owners (it is not possible to revoke for owners & we have >> no other way of closing the tree, due to B2G's use of a third party service >> for which we cannot create custom git hooks). >> >> Unless you regularly have a need to create/move repositories (those in >> releng responsible for B2G branching) or some other owner-only ability (eg >> closing the trees, so sheriffs), being a member of the 'Chefs' group should >> be sufficient. >> >> If people fall into both the "need owner permissions" and "regularly >> commit to gaia" bucket, then they will need to check the mailing lists >> and/or https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/settings/collaboration to see >> if access has been revoked to the Chefs/Cooks groups before pushing - or >> else use two github accounts. >> >> Is there someone with more context as to who needs permissions who is >> able and willing to own this for the sheriffs (so we don't get stung each >> time the tree is closed and people push anyway)? >> >> Many thanks, >> >> Ed >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-b2g mailing list >> dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g >> > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-b2g mailing list > dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g > >
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