Re: Commit to Bluedevil repo

On Tue, Dec 9, 2025 at 5:36 AM Ingo Klöcker <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Montag, 8. Dezember 2025 17:23:47 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit Julius
> Künzel wrote:
> > 08.12.2025 13:12:52 Ingo Klöcker <[email protected]>:
> > > On Montag, 8. Dezember 2025 10:02:06 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit
> > > Konstantin>
> > > Kharlamov wrote:
> > >> On Sun, 2025-12-07 at 02:06 +0100, Enol P. wrote:
> > >>> I've just committed to master a change for a toolptip text in
> > >>> Bluedevil's KCM. Revert it if necessary because I thought GitLab's
> > >>> web IDE would be smarter enough to make a pull request instead. Sorry
> > >>> if I missed any contributor guidelines for Bluedevil or if any commit
> > >>> should be discussed in this mail list first. I'm just a translator
> > >>> and my git knowledge is limited.
> > >>>
> > >>> The commit i've mentioned:
> > >>>
> https://invent.kde.org/plasma/bluedevil/-/commit/88222071c80bcbcee32071e
> > >>> 2c
> > >>> 413a8f80db64947
> > >>
> > >> FWIW, it's a pretty common mistake, and for this reason I usually
> > >> disable "push" to master in project settings for projects I manage, so
> > >> any possible commit could only go via merge-request and hence via CI.
> > >>
> > >> Just mentioning in case Bluedevil maintainers might want to do the
> > >> same.
> > >
> > > In KDE it's usually explicitly allowed to push directly to master, but
> I
> > > thought one needed to be in the KDE Developers group for this.
> > >
> > > It looks like Enol is in the KDE Developers group. I'm wondering
> whether
> > > this is a mistake if they are "just a translator". On the other hand,
> > > there are some translators who regularly fix typos or bad grammar in
> > > messages (Thanks, folks!) and who should be in the KDE Developers
> group.
> >
> > The term KDE Developer is misleading. Everyone who needs/wants push
> access
> > to the mainline git or svn repos (and follows the process) will become a
> > "Developer" independent of whether they want to write code, documentation
> > or translations. So, taking special repos such as websites and sysadmin
> > aside, there is basically only one unified permission level on top of the
> > default permissions every KDE account has.
>
> Okay. So Enol is allowed to commit (translations) to svn and this implies
> that
> they are also allowed to push directly to mainline git repos. Fair enough.
> With great power comes great responsibility.
>

Correct, all KDE Developer accounts - regardless of why it is granted - are
equivalent.

The only special repositories we have are the ones in the sysadmin/ and
websites/ groups on Invent, for which access is granted on an individual
basis, as these repositories either govern key parts of infrastructure
(repo-management, dns, ci-utilities, ci-images for instance) or represent
us in the public view (all websites/)

Given their place in the software supply chain there may be changes to
packaging/ in the future.


> Regards,
> Ingo


Thanks,
Ben