Re: CVS policy

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 11:52:32AM +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>   I wonder how many people are in need of ACL or ACL like mechanism
> for large CVS base. As W3C CVS base maintainer this is one of my major
> issues with CVS right now. Pointers on existing solutions would be
> appreciated. But ACL are not users friendly, I far prefer having
> the commit policy written in the HACKING file of a project than relying
> on obstrusive system enforcement (unless very cleanly integrated).

I have to agree with daniel here.  Also personally I really hate ACLs, I
think one of the reasons for gnome's success so far is the sort of anarchy
that exists.  Adding ACLs is adding structure, and removing the anarchy
concept.  We should focus on writing software not who has access to what :)

>   I agree. How do we define "gnome-affiliated projects" ? It seems
> that dependency on Gnome libraries is one such criteria, but it should
> be refined (using just libxml or glib would not count, would using
> just gtk+ be acceptable too ?).

Does there have to be some sort of objective meassure?  Why not just use
"common sense" here.  I think galeon qualifies then.

George

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