[TriLUG] cvs CVSROOT/modules

[William Sutton]

Yup, as you guessed we don't have gatekeepers.  I'll pass the idea along, 
but in the meantime I have to work with the status quo.

William

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Mike M wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 02:43:40PM -0400, William Sutton wrote:
> > Well, since the CVS repository is being used by the people writing the 
> > code (not as a documentation bank or whatever), the anonymous access isn't 
> > important (plus I have a sneaking suspicion that $WORK wouldn't like 
> > anonymous checkouts in any case).  So, we're stuck with usernames.
> 
> Taking a lesson from open source projects, only a handful of people
> have commit priviledges.  Everyone else submits patches that get
> reviewed, accepted, and committed by the inner core.  If you're
> not already set up in that configuration, then programmer ego will
> prevent it from being implemented.  All programmers think they should
> be allow to personally commit their precious brainchildren to the
> repository :-).
> 
> (I am an ex-corporate programmer trying to think and act like and
> open source programmer.)
> > 
> > All of this is going on inside a vpn, so the only people that will be 
> > hacking plaintext passwords will be people inside the vpn (theoretically 
> > all employees).
> 
> Much safeness here.
> 
>