Steve Long wrote: > Hi, > > Please note, I'm not talking about applications like portage or pkgcore, > just the ebuild text files, which I understand have one maintainer? >
Many ebuilds are in maintained by a bunch of people via herds. > > I appreciate that source control is needed to maintain files over a period > of time and to roll back changes. Does that happen with ebuilds? > Rolling back changes does not happen that often but a history is useful. > > I'm thinking in any case that a db app can save old revisions or use a svn > backend. I'm looking at this from a workflow perspective, in terms > especially of the security issue around giving commit access to the whole > tree. If the individual maintainer only has permission for those ebuilds > s/he is responsible for, it might make it easier to allow new people write > access. > I fail to see any benefit from a layer above svn. svn has good access control if we want use that built in. > > Sorry if this has all been discussed before. > Most likely the access control has been discusses some times before. To summarize having access to everything is quite useful. > > (Please note: I'm not discussing the mechanisms by which software might be > installed for the end-user, rather the back-end which you devs use, of > which I admittedly have no experience.) > So please let people who actually use/know how source control work discuss the issue.
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