[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: Access to GNU projects' webpages by GNU webmasters

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 01:50:02AM +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
>     I saw a communication from a GNU webmaster 
> 
> Any idea who?  Matt Lee?  Rob Myers?  John Sullivan?  Jason Self?

I believe it was from Yavor.  I don't think it was any of the above.


> Yavor has been essentially incommunicado for a while now, so I'm not
> sure we'll get an answer from him.
> 
> It is not completely unreasonable to kill webmasters' access to the sv
> project /web pages.  As it is, I've had to remind the other webmasters a
> zillion times not to edit them without talking to the maintainers.
> However, the webmasters could potentially help maintainers with the web
> pages, so it's not unreasonable for the access to remain, either.
> 
> Mainly, I was surprised at the change since I didn't recall ever seeing
> any discussion about it.
> 
> (As for me, if we decide to kill access, I suppose I could always
> temporarily make myself a member of the project when I need to edit the
> web pages (typically to say, "this package is looking for a
> maintainer").  It'd be a time-consuming pain for me, but probably better
> than preserving the whole group access infrastructure stuff when it's
> not needed for anyone else.)

Well, anyway, we've reasserted that this permissions setup is
necessary, I re-enabled it, cf. /etc/init.d/cvs-permissions.

-- 
Sylvain