Changes to branch management

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dimecres, 24 de desembre de 2014, a les 14:05:54, Ben Cooksley va escriure:
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 5:35 AM, Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Tuesday, December 23, 2014 06:27:01 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> >> El Dimarts, 23 de desembre de 2014, a les 14:48:21, Sebastian Kügler va
> >> 
> >> escriure:
> >> > On Wednesday, December 24, 2014 00:04:22 Ben Cooksley wrote:
> >> > > The first seems the least contentious: allowing all developers to
> >> > > delete branches on our mainline repositories, except for certain
> >> > > protected branches (like "master" and "KDE/*" for instance).
> >> > 
> >> > I'd add "frameworks" to that, it has a status very similar to "master"
> >> > for
> >> > many projects.
> >> 
> >> Has it? As far as i understand frameworks is "just" a work branch that
> >> will
> >> eventually merged into "master" when it's done.
> > 
> > IMO, yes. It's a branch shared across many people and often being the base
> > for yet another branch, so the annoyance of someone doing a force-push
> > there would be quite high.
> 
> The abuse of such branch deletion powers to achieve a "force push"
> would be considered a severe violation of the Code of Conduct as far
> as i'm concerned.
> That is regardless of whether the branch affected is a personal or
> mainline branch.
> 
> > I'm in favor of only relaxing the permissions for "personal" branches
> > (i.e.
> > branches that you've created yourself (in Plasma, we're using
> > username/branchname quite consistently, so just matching for "starts with
> > $username" would work well enough for me).
> 
> It would be incredibly expensive to record who created a branch to
> implement such an ACL.
> While personal branches are supported, the scheme you use at the
> moment isn't unfortunately.

We don't say record who created it, "just" do a plain text comparison of the 
branch name against the user name.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
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> 
> > Cheers,
> > --
> > sebas
> > 
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> Thanks,
> Ben