Hi, On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 01:50:02AM +0000, Karl Berry wrote: > I saw a communication from a GNU webmaster > > Any idea who? Matt Lee? Rob Myers? John Sullivan? Jason Self?
I believe it was from Yavor. I don't think it was any of the above. > Yavor has been essentially incommunicado for a while now, so I'm not > sure we'll get an answer from him. > > It is not completely unreasonable to kill webmasters' access to the sv > project /web pages. As it is, I've had to remind the other webmasters a > zillion times not to edit them without talking to the maintainers. > However, the webmasters could potentially help maintainers with the web > pages, so it's not unreasonable for the access to remain, either. > > Mainly, I was surprised at the change since I didn't recall ever seeing > any discussion about it. > > (As for me, if we decide to kill access, I suppose I could always > temporarily make myself a member of the project when I need to edit the > web pages (typically to say, "this package is looking for a > maintainer"). It'd be a time-consuming pain for me, but probably better > than preserving the whole group access infrastructure stuff when it's > not needed for anyone else.) Well, anyway, we've reasserted that this permissions setup is necessary, I re-enabled it, cf. /etc/init.d/cvs-permissions. -- Sylvain
