Can't release applications

[Aleix Pol]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 10:34 AM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Boudhayan Gupta <bgupta at kde.org> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 27 July 2016 at 16:00, Harald Sitter <sitter at kde.org> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Luigi Toscano
>>>> <luigi.toscano at tiscali.it> wrote:
>>>>> On Wednesday, 27 July 2016 12:22:45 CEST Aleix Pol wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> There's a major blocker when trying to release applications nowadays.
>>>>>> To update the stable branch one needs to commit to the
>>>>>> kde:sysadmin/repo-metadata.git repository, which can't be accessed by
>>>>>> KDE Project maintainers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How can we solve this?
>>>
>>> Note that we can give individual people RWC access to the repo. Just
>>> file a ticket with the identity usernames of people who want that
>>> right.
>>
>> But why? Why not make it a normal KDE repository? I know I can request
>> it, but the next one will come with the same problem.
>> In fact, I still have no idea what this has to do with sysadmin.
>
> The repository lives in the sysadmin/ namespace because it is not a
> product developed by KDE - it is a Infrastructural Management
> repository only (and yes, setting the l10n branches is a
> infrastructural matter, because the translators don't [directly at
> least] care what the branches are - it is scripty that cares and sets
> everything up for them).
>
> This is much like the repository sysadmin/irc-notifications and
> sysadmin/dns repositories.
> repo-management is a relic of an era before the sysadmin/ namespace existed.
>
> I'm not sure at this point if the repository should be open push or
> not - due to the potential to break updates to kde_projects.xml (which
> has all sorts of impacts) as well as our current repository creation
> workflow.

So I guess we should have maintainers request write access?

Aleix