[Gluster-devel] Gerrit Access Control

Niels de Vos ndevos at redhat.com
Mon Aug 29 18:42:22 UTC 2016


On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 09:18:05PM +0530, Pranith Kumar Karampuri wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Nigel Babu <nigelb at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello folks,
> >
> > We have not pruned our Gerrit maintainers list ever as far as I can see.
> > We've
> > only added people. For security reasons, I'd like to propose that we do the
> > following:
> >
> > If you do not have a commit in the last 90 days, your membership from
> > gluster-maintainers team on Gerrit will be revoked. This means you won't
> > have
> > permission to merge patches. This does not mean you're no longer
> > maintainer.
> > This is only a security measure. To gain access again, all you have to do
> > is
> > file a bug against gluster-infra and I'll grant you access immediately.
> >
> 
> Just need a clarification. Does a "commit in the last 90 days" means
> merging a patch sent by someone else by maintainer or maintainer sending a
> patch to be merged?

Interesting question. I was wondering about something similar as well.
What about commits/permissions for the different repositories we host on
Gerrit? Does each repository has its own maintainers, or is it one group
of maintainers that has merge permissions for all repos?

Niels

> 
> 
> >
> > When I remove someone's access, I'll send an invidual email about it.
> > Again,
> > your membership on gluster-maintainers has no say on your maintainer
> > status.
> > This is only for security reasons.
> >
> > Thoughts on implementing this policy?
> >
> > --
> > nigelb
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Pranith

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