[Pkg-javascript-devel] about granting scm commit access to the alioth project

[Jérémy Lal]

Le lundi 27 janvier 2014 à 20:44 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit :
> Greetings, fellow Javascript hackers,
> 
> Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2014-01-02 16:29:30)
> > Quoting Jérémy Lal (2014-01-02 13:01:12)
> >> I wonder if there is a minimum official requirement for granting SCM 
> >> commit access to newcomers.
> >
> > At most there is "common practice" and of that there is several: 
> > Alioth is provided by Debian and has the requirement that its use 
> > should be related to Debian, but apart from that we decide on our own 
> > how we want to work internally in our team.
> >
> > I like to avoid taking or giving orders from others, and since we use 
> > Alioth only as central "hub" for distributed resources (git and 
> > mailinglists) I see no need for hierarchy and routinely appoint "super 
> > cow powers" to any newcomer to our team.
> >
> > If others insist that we should have hierarchy and distrust newcomers 
> > until they somehow prove themselves worthy of higher power, then I 
> > will demote myself to the lowest power (and consider leaving the 
> > group).
> 
> Noone commented on this part.
> 
> Last call: If noone argues to the contrary, I will promote all team 
> members to admin status one week from now.

Agreed, but before you do:
what's the worst thing an abusing member with admin status can do to the
project ?


Jérémy.