On Feb 15, 2007, at 10:35 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo, Georg Holzmann hat gesagt: // Georg Holzmann wrote:
Hallo!
Just to give some numbers: Currently we have 59 developers according to http://sourceforge.net/projects/pure-data and I just saw, that some like said Eric Lyon are still missing - at least I do know *him* personally ;) - so we are already past 60!
Yes, but how many developers are active ATM ? I don't think that much more than 10 commited something in the last month ...
Again I think this is even more reason to handle write-everywhere permissions a bit less liberal according to a principle of least damage.
If only 10 developers actually commit regularily, dealing with permissions more restrictive wouldn't affect the others at all. And OTOH it would allow us to give out the restricted permissions to a lot more people much easier and without worries.
I am a big fan of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". So far, the only bad commits have been by people who would have had commit access anyway. I don't think setting up ACLs would be a good way to spend a bunch of time, unless bad commits become a problem. CVS keeps old revisions, all commits are reported to the pd-cvs list (which at least I check, among others), and the build farm makes a full backup of the CVS repository every night.
As for the issue of too many devs, I think if people are worried about there being too many in the sourceforge project, we should purge people who haven't committed in a year. That would probably remove 20 people from the list. Then if they want commit access again, then just post to pd-dev, just like Luke just did. Just to be clear, this isn't a judgment on those people, just purely a practical matter. I think we could send them all an email asking if they want to keep the access.
.hc
Ciao
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