[Monotone-devel] Re: [RFC] Monotone NETSYNC Hook Extension & Abstraction Layer

[Pavel Cahyna]

On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 08:02:46PM +0200, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> On my road of trying to adopt Monotone for use in my various larger
> Open Source projects like OSSP, OpenPKG, etc I've last week worked on
> an important issue (at least for me) which perhaps looks strange to the
> "maximum distribution is everything which matters" guys in the VCS camp:
> 
>    How to best combine the developer-requested distributed VCS nature
>    of Monotone with the central ACL nature required at the "master"
>    repository of those projects?
> 
> To get you an impression how "deep" the problem is we try to solve
> here: we want that the developers can use full distributed VCS outside
> the central repository. Nevertheless, they have to fulfill a mandatory
> contributor agreement (to protect the licensing, etc) which especially
> means they are allowed to propagate/merge/pluck only revisions within
> a particular branch tree (e.g. "openpkg.*") and inside this tree only
> developers who have signed the contributor agreement are allowed
> to commit their stuff. As long as a developer is fulfilling these
> constraints he will be able to share his revisions (which indirectly
> usually carry the revisions of others due to merging) with the master
> repository (from which official release tarballs and packages are
> rolled). If he breaks out of these constraints, he is _forced_ to stay
> out at all.

Hello,

I find such server-side policy very interesting. Can you also restrict all
revisions accepted by the server to those branches (e.g. openpkg.*) by
mandating that all revisions accepted via netsync have this branch cert?

Pavel