Dennis
On 2 June 2017 2:42:48 pm GMT-05:00, Pierre-Yves Chibon <pingou@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Good Morning Everyone,
With pagure becoming a front-end to dist-git, I have been wondering about the
future of the packager group.
The packager group is currently used for a few things:
- tracking purpose, it's one of our biggest groups and also one of the most active
- members of the packager group can do official package review
- members of the packager group can become maintainer of a package
Someone can join this packager group in a few ways:
- Being sponsored by someone after having submitted one or more packages for review
- Being sponsored by someone after having offered to help maintaining a package
(it is then left at the discretion of the sponsor to teach and help the new
packager to our workflow and procedures)
Currently pagure does not check which group you are in when you log in, so it
has no idea about packager.
We could make pagure only allow people that are in the packager group to log in,
but this would defeat one of the main idea of pagure's type of workflow: encourage
drive-by/one-off contributions.
With the deprecation of pkgdb2, pagure will make it even easier to give someone
access to a package, if someone wants to help you maintain a package, you can
just grant them access to the project on pagure. They will only have access to
that project and not anything else.
We could of course adjust pagure is such a way that it will enforce being member
of the packager group to be allowed to be added to a project but this seems more
pain than gain.
(Note: pagure can and will enforce the FPCA for dist-git)
So I would like to ask if we are fine with stopping to require the membership of
the packager group to contributors?
I do not see the packager group disappearing entirely since it will still be
needed for package reviews and we have given rel-eng tooling to check and enforce
this on new package requests, but I think it makes sense to stop this requirement
to commit on dist-git repos.
What do you think?
Thanks,
Pierre
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