+1, let's do it. Cheers, Chris
P.S. Super +1! *grin* On Dec 1, 2011, at 4:36 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote: > Outstanding Marvin! > > > > >> ________________________________ >> From: Marvin Humphrey <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Thursday, December 1, 2011 7:28 PM >> Subject: [lucy-dev] RFC: Grant all ASF Committers Lucy SVN karma >> >> Greets, >> >> I'd like to propose that the Lucy podling consider nuking our Subversion >> authz >> entry, allowing anyone who is a Committer at the ASF to commit to the Lucy >> corner of the ASF repository. >> >> There are two primary rationales for making this change. First, we make life >> easier for Infra -- especially if other projects follow our lead. Second, we >> lower the barrier to entry for other ASF committers to contribute to Lucy. >> >> Of course we would still have a soft rule in place that significant changes >> must be run through lucy-dev first, but we would trust other committers to >> follow this rule rather than enforce it through access control as we do >> today. >> >> Security is not a problem. For this to work, we have to monitor our commits >> list closely -- but any project that doesn't monitor its commits list closely >> doesn't deserve to live at the ASF in the first place. The bare minimum >> effort is just to watch the sender address for looking for unfamiliar apache >> ids. Anything that we catch and don't like, we can just revert. >> >> Provenance tracking is not a problem either -- anybody who has ASF commit >> privileges has an iCLA on file. >> >> Various people throughout the ASF are on record supporting the liberalization >> of repository permissions, including Board member Roy Fielding and Lucy >> Mentors Joe Schaefer and Chris Mattmann. Roy recently wrote to >> general@incubator urging that the all Incubator committers be given commit >> access to all podlings: >> >> http://s.apache.org/0HY >> >> I *suggest* that incubator change the procedure such that all committers >> (or at least all committers within a single LDAP group) have access to >> all >> incubator areas and that new people simply be requested to only commit >> within areas for which they have been given permission by the podling >> developers. >> >> Joe and I believe that we should go one step further and grant access to the >> entire ASF committer community. Neither Joe, nor I, nor Gavin MacDonald >> foresee serious problems. There may be Incubator-specific bookkeeping issues >> that arise, as discussed in the followups to Roy's post, but those shouldn't >> block us on principle. >> >> From what Joe tells me, other ASF communities have discussed making such a >> change, but we would be the first to actually go through with it. >> >> If we have general consensus, I will call a VOTE proposing that we liberalize >> our authz to the maximum extent possible within the practical constraints of >> the Incubator. >> >> Marvin Humphrey >> >> >> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
