As the meeting minutes show a TODO list I'd like to suggest we look at the 'accountability' thread I started with a mail on 31.07.2008 15.07 "Accountability, concrete suggestion" and not let that one slip through the cracks.
We need someone to research essentially if we can easily trace who made a push. As you may know, git allows me to commit under any email address. For example if evilHaxor makes a commit as ettrich and pushes it to a feature branch of kdebase which enhances kwin and 2 months (and 60 commits) later that gets merged into the main tree can we still track who exactly pushed this? And 3 years from now? Can we still track it after that the feature branch has been removed by the owner ? How hard is it to track it 3 years from now in the unfortunate event that gitorious,org is no longer available? We talked a bit on IRC about this and the current solution seems to be to use the push info that gitorious now records. They record in a sql database that I pushed certain commits (sha1s) and they record that it was my ssh key that did it. The suggestion is to make sure we get periodic backups that the e.v. would own so even if gitorious goes under we have them. I see several problems with that; the easiest is already identified. We have to get permission from the user for gitorious to share this info with the e.v. As Ingo and Ian mentioned in another thread. Makes me wonder what happens when I get a patch from a 3rd party and I push it. That 3rd party never ok-ed to the opt-in and his email address is still in the commit. Is that not a violation? Or what if I start a koffice-plugin as a separate repo and get some friends to help out. Is it possible KDE would forbid me to merge that because one of them doesn't want to ok to the opt-in? I hate to bring up these pesky legal and accountability issues but I think they should be fixed before we start working on this new platform at-large. I hope you agree. -- Thomas Zander _______________________________________________ Kde-scm-interest mailing list Kde-scm-interest@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-scm-interest