There is also groups in fas for alternate architectures. On top of CVS admin
and proven packager, that all some how have to be tied into the ACLS. Proven
packager give you access to everything except for the Mozilla packages and the
others give access to everything.
Dennis
On 2 June 2017 2:42:48 pm GMT-05:00, Pierre-Yves Chibon <pin...@pingoured.fr>
wrote:
>Good Morning Everyone,
>
>With pagure becoming a front-end to dist-git, I have been wondering
>about the
>future of the packager group.
>
>The packager group is currently used for a few things:
>- tracking purpose, it's one of our biggest groups and also one of the
>most active
>- members of the packager group can do official package review
>- members of the packager group can become maintainer of a package
>
>Someone can join this packager group in a few ways:
>- Being sponsored by someone after having submitted one or more
>packages for review
>- Being sponsored by someone after having offered to help maintaining a
>package
>(it is then left at the discretion of the sponsor to teach and help the
>new
> packager to our workflow and procedures)
>
>Currently pagure does not check which group you are in when you log in,
>so it
>has no idea about packager.
>We could make pagure only allow people that are in the packager group
>to log in,
>but this would defeat one of the main idea of pagure's type of
>workflow: encourage
>drive-by/one-off contributions.
>
>With the deprecation of pkgdb2, pagure will make it even easier to give
>someone
>access to a package, if someone wants to help you maintain a package,
>you can
>just grant them access to the project on pagure. They will only have
>access to
>that project and not anything else.
>
>We could of course adjust pagure is such a way that it will enforce
>being member
>of the packager group to be allowed to be added to a project but this
>seems more
>pain than gain.
>(Note: pagure can and will enforce the FPCA for dist-git)
>
>So I would like to ask if we are fine with stopping to require the
>membership of
>the packager group to contributors?
>
>I do not see the packager group disappearing entirely since it will
>still be
>needed for package reviews and we have given rel-eng tooling to check
>and enforce
>this on new package requests, but I think it makes sense to stop this
>requirement
>to commit on dist-git repos.
>
>What do you think?
>
>
>Thanks,
>Pierre
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