Re: [SVN-MIGRATION] Re: Github

[email protected] (Andrei Zmievski) Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:28:24 -0800
Newsgroups svn.migration
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Johannes Schlüter wrote:
> I really like git. With github I have one problem: As far as I can see a
> tree is always owned by a user not by a group of users. Tis makes it,
> for me as a user, hard to identify the mainline. There seem to be some
> projects (I found MaNGOS as an example http://github.com/mangos) where a
> user named like the project exists so either thats again a single person
> or they share the password.
> 
> As a comparison (not that I like bzr more than git, but ...) on
> launchpad there are the users, like me https://launchpad.net/~johannes-s
> who are member of groups, like "MySQL Developers"
> https://launchpad.net/~mysql who can own projects and branches while
> everybody in that group has some rights on that project/branch (I never
> looked at the different rights there are in detail)

We can have a GitHub user "PHP Dev" owning the mainline project, and then just add the SSH 
public keys of those users that are allowed to update the mainline (or use the new ACL 
method that Rasmus was talking with GitHub guys about).

-Andrei