[Xorg] New committer process?

[Daniel Stone]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 03:03:27PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> Around 20 o'clock on Jun 14, Alan Cox wrote:
> > CVS acls can help a lot here - you can limit people to drivers they are
> > supposed to be hacking on (which also helps avoid accidents). I'd be
> > happier with ACLs, if only because I'll know I can't actually trash
> > someone elses work.
> 
> Our current CVS setup has people running cvs over ssh through separate 
> accounts on freedesktop.org.  That means the repository itself is writable 
> by all cvs users.  While cvs may respect acls, I'm not sure how to set 
> things up to prevent people from just editing the repository directly.

Um, maybe Alan meant filesystem-level ACLs, so you can't actually edit
the ,v at all. I'm pretty sure fd.o's current kernel has ACL support.

-- 
Daniel Stone                                            <daniel at freedesktop.org>
freedesktop.org: powering your desktop                http://www.freedesktop.org
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