Re: The future of commit access policy for core Firefox

"L. David Baron" <[email protected]> Fri, 10 Mar 2017 08:58:24 -0800

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.seamonkey
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On Friday 2017-03-10 11:33 -0500, Steven MacLeod wrote:
> It seems to me like it's time that an actual machine readable code ownership
> system is implemented (Like most large orgs have). Allowing some level of
> trust
> to keep people productive makes sense to me, but I don't think the current
> scm_level system provides enough control to grant reasonable trust we can
> enforce with automation.

There's a big tradeoff here, which is that we don't want to
discourage refactoring or cleanup changes that touch large parts of
the codebase.  Such changes are important for the long-term health
of the codebase.  To allow them, we've generally allowed the owners
of an API to review straightforward changes to users of that API
across all parts of the tree, because getting review from every
module touched is a significant amount of work and delay, and
strongly discourages making such refactoring / cleanup changes.

-David

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