On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 9:07:40 AM UTC+10, Holger Levsen wrote: > > Hi, > > On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2012, Sami Tikka wrote: > > Usually it is desireable if everyone who commits to a software > repository > > also has access to the Jenkins that builds from the repository. > > thats not true for every software you build, eg as a company you might > very > well build eg the linux kernel but you still dont want to give access to > your > jenkins instance to everyone ;-) > > And thus those (outside) committers are not as interesting as internal > ones. > > I agree. It is actually counterproductive not to distinguish committers and authenticated users; when I first saw those names in the people listing** in our jenkins instance I thought there had been a security issue of some kind.
**Which is not really explained anywhere that I could find; if there is a good explanation please point to it so I can make it more visible.