[tei-council] fine-grained permissions for subversion

[Lou Burnard]

While I sympathise with this point of view, I feel duty bound to point 
out that there is a strong tradition of "cabinet responsibility" within 
the TEI and particularly within the Council. Divvying responsibility for 
particular sections or topics up would somewhat go against that tradition.



On 12/04/11 18:39, Martin Holmes wrote:
> For me, the strongest argument for granular permissions would be the
> possibility to designate specific people as "maintainers" for particular
> areas of the specification in which they happen to be expert. I rather
> like the idea of gatekeepers (rather than having lots of people with
> commit privileges over the whole repo). There are some areas where I'd
> feel qualified to be a gatekeeper, but others where I definitely should
> not be; and with designated people for each area, it would be easier to
> know who is responsible for making a specific change once the council
> has agreed to it.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
> On 11-04-12 09:40 AM, Piotr Bański wrote:
>> Much as you say, Sebastian, we didn't consider it critical, just
>> something potentially nice to have. So no special concern, I was just
>> following up on a conversation on SF access and the granularity of
>> permissions.
>>
>>     P.
>>
>> On 12.04.2011 09:43, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>>>
>>> On 12 Apr 2011, at 05:30, Piotr Bański wrote:
>>>
>>>> We talked today (in the *better* taxi, coming from Martin's place) about
>>>> SVN permissions and their granularity. Here is the link to where you can
>>>> cast your vote for introducing directory-based permissions in SF:
>>>>
>>>> https://sourceforge.net/apps/ideatorrent/sourceforge/ideatorrent/idea/2/
>>>
>>>
>>> I agree it would be nice, but I don't think its holding our work back. The
>>> chance of irrecoverable abuse is really very very small, I would say.
>>>
>>> do you have a special concern that this would solve?
>>> --
>>> Sebastian Rahtz
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>>> Oxford University Computing Services
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>>>
>>> Sólo le pido a Dios
>>> que el futuro no me sea indiferente
>>>
>>>
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