[Kde-scm-interest] meeting summary

[Chani]

On December 11, 2009 12:17:30 Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> On 12/11/2009 3:12 PM, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 03:04:38PM -0500, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> >> On 12/11/2009 2:59 PM, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> >>> no. being a reviewer who may ack patches is a higher privilege than
> >>> having commit access.
> >>
> >> Um, right.
> >>
> >> Let's just see how far that reviewer gets if he doesn't have commit
> >> access.
> >>
> >> Whereas a committer lacking review access can still apply the same
> >> patches that would be contained in a merge request.
> >
> > you can try that exactly once in projects like webkit.
> 
> I'm talking about technical capabilities. Policy is something else
> entirely. It's nice that webkit does things <whatever way it does it>
> but that doesn't mean anything to us.

so... you two are debating whether everyone in kde-developers should have 
permission to update/merge a project's merge requests?

hmm.

well, iirc not everyone can do everything on our bugzilla, but I really don't 
know whether I can go close amarok's bugreports or only plasma's.

as for our reviewboard, anyone can add a "ship it" comment and anyone can 
choose to join a project-group, but only the creator can mark the darn thing 
as committed (which is suboptimal). but reviewboard has nothing to do with 
making hte actual commit.

so there isn't a clear precedent within kde that I can see - we don't grant 
bugzilla permissions until someone says they need them, that's about the 
closest example I can come up with.

I wonder, what do project maintainers think about giving such permissions to 
everyone? a good thing, allowing them to delegate more easily? or a bad thing, 
allowing any kde dev to come along and do something silly?

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