On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 4:57 AM, Aleix Pol <aleix...@kde.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Ben Cooksley <bcooks...@kde.org> wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 10:34 AM, Aleix Pol <aleix...@kde.org> wrote: >>> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Boudhayan Gupta <bgu...@kde.org> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> On 27 July 2016 at 16:00, Harald Sitter <sit...@kde.org> wrote: >>>>> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Luigi Toscano >>>>> <luigi.tosc...@tiscali.it> wrote: >>>>>> On Wednesday, 27 July 2016 12:22:45 CEST Aleix Pol wrote: >>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>> There's a major blocker when trying to release applications nowadays. >>>>>>> To update the stable branch one needs to commit to the >>>>>>> kde:sysadmin/repo-metadata.git repository, which can't be accessed by >>>>>>> KDE Project maintainers. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> How can we solve this? >>>> >>>> Note that we can give individual people RWC access to the repo. Just >>>> file a ticket with the identity usernames of people who want that >>>> right. >>> >>> But why? Why not make it a normal KDE repository? I know I can request >>> it, but the next one will come with the same problem. >>> In fact, I still have no idea what this has to do with sysadmin. >> >> The repository lives in the sysadmin/ namespace because it is not a >> product developed by KDE - it is a Infrastructural Management >> repository only (and yes, setting the l10n branches is a >> infrastructural matter, because the translators don't [directly at >> least] care what the branches are - it is scripty that cares and sets >> everything up for them). >> >> This is much like the repository sysadmin/irc-notifications and >> sysadmin/dns repositories. >> repo-management is a relic of an era before the sysadmin/ namespace existed. >> >> I'm not sure at this point if the repository should be open push or >> not - due to the potential to break updates to kde_projects.xml (which >> has all sorts of impacts) as well as our current repository creation >> workflow. > > So I guess we should have maintainers request write access?
For now at least yes - depending on the number of requestees we can evaluate other options. > > Aleix Cheers, Ben
