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> On Jan 10, 2019, at 4:18 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 12:45 AM Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 1/9/19, 7:35 PM, "Roman Shaposhnik" <ro...@shaposhnik.org> wrote:
>> 
>>>    On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 11:38 AM Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com.invalid> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Greg,
>>> 
>>> You may have missed some other infra-technical questions upthread that 
>>> might help us fashion a solution.  I'll repeat them here:
>>> 
>>> 1) What is the state of Git->SVN and SVN->Git integration?  Could our job 
>>> clone git to SVN, have the bot make changes in SVN with the additional 
>>> restrictions as you said SVN could do, then sync back up to Git (including 
>>> tags as well)?
>>> 2) What would be the impact of infra creating a "RoyalePMC" committer 
>>> account?
>> 
>>    That is definitely not allowed. PMC members are expected to be human
>>    beings with ICLAs on file with ASF.
>> 
>> The only allowed users of the RoyalePMC account would be human PMC
>> members (technically, anyone with access to private@royale).
>> Commits from RoyalePMC would therefore have somebody's ICLA behind it.

As a Royale PMC member I’m not comfortable with being on this hook.

> 
> Then just do that from under individual accounts.

+1

I would be comfortable with Approved PMC member credentials like are used for 
the handful of VM sysadmins from the OpenOffice PMC.

> 
>> 
>>    In fact, I would go as far as to say that any PMC member willingly
>>    disseminating his or her credentials for *others* to use is likely to
>>    be considered for a an action from the board.
>> 
>> I would agree that PMC members should not share their credentials with 
>> others,
>> hence the idea of having a RoyalePMC account, so no human has to share or
>> transfer credentials to the build machine.   Is it important to know exactly 
>> which
>> individual committed something or just that somebody with an ICLA committed 
>> something, and why?
> 
> It is very important to establish IP provenance down to an individual.

And accountability.

Regards,
Dave


> Thanks,
> Roman.

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