Re: Governance of the Jenkins whitelist

2014-12-15 Thread Patrick Wendell
Hey Andrew, The list of admins is maintained by the Amplab as part of their donation of this infrastructure. The reason why we need to have admins is that the pull request builder will fetch and then execute arbitrary user code, so we need to do a security audit before we can approve testing new p

Governance of the Jenkins whitelist

2014-12-13 Thread Andrew Ash
Jenkins is a really valuable tool for increasing quality of incoming patches to Spark, but I've noticed that there are often a lot of patches waiting for testing because they haven't been approved for testing. Certain users can instruct Jenkins to run on a PR, or add other users to a whitelist. Ho