Granting write access to all DDs to our git area

[Felipe Sateler]

On 13 April 2015 at 15:46, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
> Quoting Felipe Sateler (2015-04-13 20:32:57)
>> On 13 April 2015 at 13:53, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>>> Quoting Felipe Sateler (2015-04-13 15:07:37)
>>>> On 13 April 2015 at 04:30, Fabian Greffrath <fabian at greffrath.com> wrote:
>>>>> Am Freitag, den 10.04.2015, 13:03 -0300 schrieb Felipe Sateler:
>>>>>> I think it would be good: should someone do an NMU or a backport
>>>>>> of a team package, they can commit their contributions directly to
>>>>>> git (we could possibly recommend to a separate branch).
>>>>>
>>>>> I think we should grant all DDs write access to the repository.
>>>>> After all, we trust them to do NMUs and security uploads, why
>>>>> wouldn't we trust them to commit reasonable changes to the repo?
>>>>
>>>> That is my reasoning as well.
>>>>
>>>> However I just realized the web interface does not allow granting
>>>> the Debian group write access to the repos. I tried manually but
>>>> that can only be done on repositories one owns (and only on objects
>>>> on that repository one owns!). So the alioth admin team would have
>>>> to be asked to do this for us. I can do the asking.
>>>
>>> Not sure what you tried.  Here's how I would do it:
>>>
>>> 1) Activate the Debian member role.
>>>
>>> 1a) wait about 10 seconds, then cancel the crappy broken PHP and load
>>> the admin page againg - and if 1) didn't succeed then try again
>>> giving a little more time
>>
>> Yes, I activated the role.
>>
>>>
>>> 2) in settings for the Debian member role, set it to visible and
>>> grant write access
>>
>> And here is where the page hangs. It stores the setting as visible,
>> but there is no place to set write access. It probably is done on the
>> next page but I cannot access it.
>
> There is no next page.  Sorry - I remembered wrong: the Debian role
> implicitly enables write access, there is no option for that.
>
> All DDs should have write access now that the role is added!
>
> Do you say (in your earlier post) that it does not actually work, or
> simply that it does not look like it works from web UI POV?

I ssh'ed into alioth and did not see the Debian group in the ACL for
the team repos. So I assumed it didn't work. Possibly it hangs setting
the ACLs on all the repositories and only some where set? I can't test
right now (not on my debian laptop).

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler