Re: [General] sandboxes or branches for interns/SoC students

[Mike Taylor]

I was already planning on setting up commit access restrictions for the other repositories - just didn't have any external drivers for a deadline.

sounds like I now do :)




On May 25, 2006, at 2:25 PM, Ted Leung wrote:

Adding the same commit hooks to the other sandboxes will take a day to implement and test.

So the question has arisen as to the mechanics of having interns and Summer of Code students work on the various code bases, and we wanted to bring the discussion onto the lists

The possible options are:

The issue is that we want the student's work to be available in a public place (that is version control) without granting unearned commit privileges. There are several options for trying to make this happen, none of them ideal (at least in my opinion). 1. Give each person a private branch in the repository sections for each product The problem with private branches is that we also grant commit privileges to all of our repositories. Also, it establishes the precedent of giving non-committer private branches and keeping the history of those branches in the version control repository. 2. Give each person a sandbox in <http://svn.osafoundation.org/sandbox/>

Ted



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The sandboxes have limited access control, which is implemented via a pre-commit hook. Unfortunately, granting commit access to a sandbox also grant commit access to all the other projects, because the main project repositories do not have a pre-commit hook. 3. Have new folks use svk <svk.elixus.org/>, which provides a distributed version control system on top of subversion The problem with using svk is the need to learn a new toolset and way of working. My personal opinion is that implementing access control on the repositories via pre-commit hooks is something that we should do anyway and that would solve the problem in the short term.

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