[Dune] Release branches for the upcoming 2.1 release created

[Martin Nolte]

Hi Oli, hi Jö, hi all,

thank you very much for creating and explaining the directory structure as
well as setting the desired permissions.

I have one question, though: Why don't we grant write permission to
release-2.1 branch to all core developers? With the current solution all
patches have to be ported by either Robert or myself. I see two disadvantages:
First of all, we might forget an important patch. Secondly, sometimes patches
don't port 1:1 and we have to ask the creator of the patch to apply it to the
release branch, fix it, and send us a diff. Since most such patches will come
from core developers, wouldn't it be easier if they could simply commit them?
The release managers can always revert unintended patches.

Best to all and thanks again to Oli and Jö,

Martin


On 02/17/2011 01:38 PM, Jö Fahlke wrote:
> Am Thu, 17. Feb 2011, 12:28:50 +0100 schrieb Oliver Sander:
>> If I remember correctly, managers of this release are the folks in Freiburg.
>> I don't quite know how to set the proper permissions on the server.  Maybe
>> somebody in Heidelberg can step in?  Thanks.
> 
> OK, I've set the permissions as follow for the modules dune-common, dune-grid,
> dune-grid-dev-howto, dune-grid-howto and dune-istl:
> 
> | group       | path                  | permission |
> |-------------+-----------------------+------------|
> | DuneAll     | /                     | rw         |
> | DuneAll     | /releases             | ro         |
> | DuneAll     | /tags                 | ro         |
> | DuneAll     | /branches/release-2.1 | ro         |
> | ReleaseTeam | /tags                 | rw         |
> | ReleaseTeam | /branches/release-2.1 | rw         |
> 
> That means, nobody may write in /releases anymore, and only member of the
> release team may write in /tags and /branches/release-2.1.  /branches itself
> is still open to anybody with commit rights, since we want people to be able
> to easily create topic branches.  So, when a new release branch is created, we
> have to explicitly set the write permissions on that branch to ReleaseTeam
> only.
> 
> The group ReleaseTeam previously consisted of christi, dedner, graeser, joe,
> mario, mblatt, mdroh_01, mnolte, peter, robertk and sander, i.e. all core
> developers plus Martin Drohmann who was release manager once.  This does not
> match the group name, so I'm changing the group to only contain the current
> release managers robertk and mnolte (as Oliver put it: the Freiburg guys).
> In addition I changed the group owner from christi to robertk, so that the
> group is owned by one af its members.
> 
> Is this fine with everybody?
> 
> Bye,
> Jö.
> 
> 
> 
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