On 7/18/2012 00:43, Mark Linimon wrote:
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:09:50AM +0200, John Marino wrote:
Would it be so bad if all my submitted patches (as a recognized
quality contributor with history) just got committed as a passthrough?
This has been explored on the mailing lists before, however, we don't
technically have a way to do either of the following:
- let people commit to "just some" ports
- have any patches be autocommitted
No one has ever tackled the former problem. The latter problem just
seems to me to open up ways for people to abuse the system. It makes
me nervous.
Well, between the two I would suggest a combination of "let people
autocommit patches to "just some" ports".
Reasons - Don't have to hassle with the logistics of giving a limited
commit bit, risk getting the permissions wrong, and removing it after
the maintainer retires.
You'd have to create an automatic system that could verify the patches
apply cleanly (or maybe just accept file replacements), and that the
files came from maintainer. A public/private key system should do that.
All you'd need to do is is map keys to ports and not accept any files
outside of the allowed area. Removing that mapping is a lot easier than
tweaking commit privileges.
Yes, somebody would have to set that up but it would pay big dividend I
think.
John
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