+1 Important to protect the master.
I think we should also protect Tags. On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 11:36 AM, Gyula Fóra <gyf...@apache.org> wrote: > +1 for protecting the master branch. > > I also don't see any reason why anyone should force push there > > Gyula > > Fabian Hueske <fhue...@gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2016. jan. 13., Sze, > 11:07): > > > Hi everybody, > > > > Lately, ASF Infra has changed the write permissions of all Git > repositories > > twice. > > > > Originally, it was not possible to force into the master branch. > > A few weeks ago, infra disabled also force pushing into other branches. > > > > Now, this has changed again after the issue was discussed with the ASF > > board. > > The current situation is the following: > > - force pushing is allowed on all branched, including master > > - branches and tags can be deleted (not sure if this applies as well for > > the master branch) > > - "the 'protected' portions of git to primarily focus on refs/tags/rel - > > thus any tags under rel, will have their entire commit history." > > > > I am not 100% sure which exact parts of the repository are protected now > as > > I am not very much into the details of Git. > > However, I believe we need to create new tags under rel for our previous > > releases to protect them. > > > > In addition, I would like to propose to ask Infra to add protection for > the > > master branch. I can only recall very few situations where changes had to > > be reverted. I am much more in favor of a reverting commit now and then > > compared to a branch that can be arbitrarily changed. > > > > What do you think about this? > > > > Best, Fabian > > >
