[Kde-scm-interest] the permissions confusion

[Lydia Pintscher]

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 01:50, Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi at kde.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 05:37:57PM -0500, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
>> On 12/12/2009 3:04 PM, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
>> > we have that problem only for acl-protected areas, which are a few.
>> > i'm proposing a "soft acl" to be able to have more acls without
>> > disturbing legitimate exceptional workflows too much.
>>
>> Where is this needed?
>>
> as i've already mentioned, i'd like to shield kdm somewhat from the
> well-meaning, but usually ill-advised contributions, but i always found
> a real acl a bit too harsh.
> even nearer the core, i think the kate devs *might* want such a thing,
> but i won't bet.
> further out, i think some extragear projects might want it for the sake
> of their autonomy.

I can only speak for Amarok from extragear here but I can't remember
when someone outside our core team committing to our code has been a
big problem. People usually ask even for trivial fixes. No need for
any technical solutions here.


Cheers
Lydia

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Lydia Pintscher
Amarok community manager
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