Re: [SVN-MIGRATION] Re: Github

[email protected] (Marcus Boerger) Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:22:51 +0100
Newsgroups svn.migration
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello Andrei,

Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 6:28:24 PM, you wrote:

> 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).

Yet this would change our development model completely. Not only the tools
we use.

marcus



Best regards,
 Marcus