Petteri Räty wrote: >> 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. > That's not really an issue for a db app.
>> 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. > Sure, that's why I mentioned having a svn backend if an archive table is not considered acceptable. >> 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. > So? Fair enough then. >> 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. > I can understand that; I'm not convinced that giving every dev access to the whole thing is necessary or desirable, but it may well be how gentoo likes to operate, and i have no quarrel with that. >> >> (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. Um, I do understand source control and have used it for other stuff. It just doesn't seem an ideal fit for this purpose. This really was motivated by a desire to lessen the workload for existing devs, but clearly it doesn't fit with the way gentoo works. No probs. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
