Re: Theoretical: CVS Admin with Flags

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On Wednesday 07 February 2007 11:13, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > > The package has to be added to the build database, and that requires
> > > some level of admin task.  If that task is rolled into preparing the
> > > CVS tree for the import of your package, then all the better.
> >
> > Can we please keep things no more complicated than they were? Initial
> > import into devel should not require any admin interaction. If it does,
> > why do we need sponsorship?
>
> And review process.
>
> > Getting a contributor account was difficult enough, I don't
> > want to jump through hoops with every new package!
>
> After it's already approved, I should've added.

Because something has to write to a package database to assign ownership and 
setup ACLs.  We can't let everybody do this, or whats the point of ACLs, 
anybody could overwrite anybody else's packages.  This is just one of the 
things that has to change when going from an official 3rd party repo to a 1st 
party collection.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora

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