On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Thomas Koch <tho...@koch.ro> wrote: > Benson Margulies: >> Anyone can read http://www.apache.org/dev/open-access-svn.html to see a >> summary of the central idea that started this discussion: that the default >> authorization scheme for Subversion at Apache should be to grant technical >> permission to commit to all committers across the Foundation. > > I'm not currently active in any Apache project but have been and was very > annoyed to be forced to use Subversion.
Apache now support git, but I disagree as to the implication. Apache requires there to be a single, reference, repository, from which releases derive. An enumerated list of people has permission to push to that repository, and this discussion has implications for the access control on that. > > Therefor just for the record: The whole discussion would be meaningless if the > ASF would switch to Git. (I'm not sure about the progress in this regard.) > With Git, everybody can add commits to every Git repository on the Internet. > One would just not be able to push them. But I can just push to my own Github > account and send an email asking for a pull. > > Regards, > > Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro
